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English Faculty Listing
Matthew Bissell
email
212-774-0787
Jennifer N. Brown
Associate Professor of English
email
212-517-0601
Degrees
B.A., Georgetown University
M.A., Georgetown University
Ph.D., The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Dr. Brown’s teaching and research interests include medieval literature in Middle English, Middle Scots, Anglo-Norman, and Latin, as well as literary and feminist theory. Her book Three Women of Liège: A Critical Edition of and Commentary on the Middle English Lives of Elizabeth of Spalbeek, Christina Mirabilis, and Marie d'Oignies was published in 2008 by Brepols Publishers in their series "Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts." Dr. Brown's research and publications focus on medieval devotional literature written by, for, and about women. Her most recent work has been on the 12th-century Lives of Edward the Confessor written in Latin and Anglo-Norman, especially that by the anonymous Nun of Barking Abbey. She has published articles in Magistra: A Journal of Women’s Spirituality in History, Medieval Feminist Forum, the Journal of the History of Sexuality, as well as several edited collections. Currently, she is co-editing a book on Barking Abbey and working on Catherine of Siena's tradition in medieval England. Dr. Brown writes and edits the "Medieval Women's Writing" and “Middle Scots Poetry” chapters of the annual Year's Work in English Studies (Oxford University Press). She also wrote and edited the "Middle Ages" chapter for the Instructor's Guide to the Norton Anthology of Western Literature. In addition, she is the Vice President of the Medieval Club of New York.
Carol Camper
Associate Professor of English
email
212-774-0731
Degrees
B.A., Wittenberg University
M.A., The State University of New York, College at Buffalo
Ph.D., The State University of New York, College at Buffalo
Carol Camper, Associate Professor of English, has a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her teaching and research interests include British and American Modernism, the modern European novel, the lives of women in early modern Europe, feminist theory, and developments in the teaching of writing on all college levels.
Michael Colvin
Associate Professor of Spanish
email
212-517-0549
Degrees
B.A. Stockton State College
Ph.D. Temple University
Michael Colvin received his Ph.D. from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Temple University in Philadelphia. His areas of research interest include late twentieth-century Latin American narrative, Portuguese fado music, and Iberian film and popular culture produced under fascist dictatorships. He is the author of two books: Las últimas obras de José Donoso: Juegos, roles y rituales en la subversión del poder (Madrid: Pliegos, 2001) and The Reconstruction of Lisbon: Severa’s Legacy and the Fado’s Rewriting of Urban History (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2008). Michael Colvin regularly teaches intermediate and advanced Spanish grammar, courses on Spanish and Latin American Literature and Civilization, and writing seminars about Hispanic New York and the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War.
Recent Publications:
Colvin, Michael. “Images of Defeat: Early Fado Films and the Estado Novo's Notion of Progress.” Portuguese Studies. 26.2 (2010).
Recent Presentations/Productions:
The Reconstruction of Lisbon: Severa’s Legacy and the Fado’s Rewriting of Urban History.” Guest Lecture at the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture: University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA. March 12, 2009.
“Re-pensar Lisboa: A Mitologia da Severa e a Renascença do Bairro da Mouraria das Cinzas das Demolições.” Guest lecture at the Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les Mondes Ibériques Contemporains: Université de la Sorbonne (Paris IV). April 7, 2009.
Cecilia Feilla
Associate Professor of English
email
212-774-0774
Degrees
B.A., University of Michigan
M.A., New York University
Ph.D., New York University
Cecilia Feilla, Associate Professor of English, has a Ph.D. from New York University. Her teaching and research interests include Restoration and 18th century literature, the early history of the novel, urban studies, and women's literature. Her current research focuses on the sentimental tableau in 18th century literature and visual culture.
Julie Huntington
Assistant Professor of French
email
212-517-0645
Degrees
Ph.D. Vanderbilt University
B.A. Eastern Michigan University
Julie Huntington earned her Ph.D. in French from Vanderbilt University. Her teaching and research interests focus on exploring questions of language, identity, voice and representation in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Francophone literature and film. Her first book Sounding Off: Rhythm, Music and Identity in West African and Caribbean Francophone Novels examines how writers create sounding spaces in their novels and, in so doing, open up spaces for identity appropriation, negotiation, and configuration that lie beyond the confines of Western identificatory paradigms. She is currently working on her second book, Pestles, Pots and Poetry: Recipes as Rhetoric in Contemporary African Fiction. In the book, she explores what happens when the oral and instrumental traditions associated with meal preparation are translated and transcribed in literary formats. She also works on projects in foreign language pedagogy, placing particular emphasis on evaluating strategies for teaching literature and promoting intercultural awareness at all levels of foreign language teaching.
Recent Publications:
Sounding Off: Rhythm, Music and Identity in West African and Caribbean Francophone Novels. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Fall 2009.
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Répliques à Voltaire et à Paul Éluard: le dialogue intertextuel de Simone Schwarz-Bart.” Conseil International d’Études Francophones annual conference. New Orleans, LA. June 2009.
“Responses to Voltaire and Paul Éluard: The Intertextual Dialogue of Simone Schwarz-Bart.” Constructing Black France, A Transatlantic Dialogue Symposium: Barnard College and Columbia University. New York, NY. April 2009.
“Bridging Divides Between Language and Literature in Foreign Language Classes.” American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages annual convention. Orlando, FL. November 2008.
Magdalena Maczynska
Associate Professor of English
Director of the Writing Seminar Program
email
212-517-0643
Degrees
B.A., Wroclaw University Poland
M.A., Wroclaw University Poland
Ph.D., The Catholic University of America
Dr. Magdalena Maczynska's teaching and research interests include contemporary fiction, the history of the novel, narrative studies, rhetoric and composition, creative writing, and English as a foreign language.
Peter Naccarato
Professor of English, Chair of Humanities Division
email
212-517-0603
Degrees
B.A., Villanova University
Ph.D., State University of New York, College at Stony Brook
Peter Naccarato’s teaching and research interests include twentieth-century British literature, literary theory, and cultural studies. He has recently developed courses on Gay and Lesbian Literature and Literature and Human Rights. His recent scholarly work is in the area of food studies, focusing on the role of food and food practices in circulating ideologies and sustaining individual and group identities. With Katie LeBesco, he co-teaches COR 300: Edible Ideologies: The Politics of Food.
Recent Publications:
LeBesco, K. and Naccarato, P. The Perils and Pleasures of Extreme Eating: Television Food Shows and Working Class Identity. In Blue Collar Pop Culture. Ed. M. Keith Booker. California: Praeger Publishers, forthcoming. LeBesco, K. and Naccarato, P. (Eds.) Edible Ideologies: Representing Food and Meaning. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2008. LeBesco, K. and Naccarato, P. Julia Child, Martha Stewart, and the Rise of Culinary Capital. In Edible Ideologies: Representing Food and Meaning. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2008. LeBesco, K. and Naccarato, P. Editor’s Introduction. In Edible Ideologies: Representing Food and Meaning. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2008.
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Chew on This: Food Studies in Communication. Seminar Facilitator and Presenter. National Communication Association Annual Conference. San Francisco, CA. November 2010. Fixing Dinner/Fixing the Self, co-authored with Katie LeBesco. Crossing Borders III, sponsored by Marymount Manhattan College at its Bedford Hills Correctional Facility campus. March 2010. Celebrating “Junk” Food Culture: Pleasure, Irony and Earnestness in Carnivalesque Consumption, co-authored with Katie LeBesco. National Communication Association Annual Conference. Chicago, Illinois. November 2009. Against Food Snobbery: Resisting Culinary Capital Through the Embrace of “Junk,” co-authored with Katie LeBesco. Joint Annual Meeting of the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society. Penn State University. May 2009. Television Cooking Shows: Buying Your Way to Self Improvement. The Modern Language Association Conference. San Francisco, California. December 2008. Authenticity, Expertise and Taste: Online Restaurant Criticism and the Deployment of Culinary Capital, co-authored with Katie LeBesco. Crossing Borders II, sponsored by Marymount Manhattan College at its Bedford Hills Correctional Facility campus. October 2008. A Family That Eats Together, Kills Together: Food as Metaphor in The Sopranos, co-authored with Katie LeBesco. The Sopranos: A Wake. Fordham University. May 2008. Julia Child, Martha Stewart, and the Rise of Culinary Capital. 5th Conference on Food Representation in Literature, Film and Other Arts. The University of Texas at San Antonio. February 2008. Panel Organizer and Chair, Edible Ideologies I and Edible Ideologies II. 5th Conference on Food Representation in Literature, Film and Other Arts. The University of Texas at San Antonio. February 2008.
Martha Sledge
Associate Professor of EnglishChair, Department of Literature and Language
email
212-517-0602
Degrees
B.A., Louisiana College
M.A., Ohio State University
Ph.D., Emory University
Martha Sledge, Associate Professor of English, has a Ph.D. from Emory University. Her teaching and research interests are in American literature, autobiography, literary theory, and women's literature. Her current research focuses on 19th century women's diaries and literature, and on images of Chinese in American literature.
Jerry Williams
Associate Professor of English
email
212-517-0604
Degrees
B.A., Vermont College
M.F.A., University of Arizona
Ph.D., Oklahoma State University
Jerry Williams' teaching interests include poetry, creative nonfiction, and contemporary literature. Carnegie Mellon University Press published his first collection of poems, Casino of the Sun, in 2003, and his second, Admission, in 2010. The Overlook Press published his anthology of breakup and divorce poetry, It's Not You, It's Me, in 2010. Recently, he has been working on a memoir called The Wrong House.
Recent Publications:
Books:
Williams, Jerry. Admission. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press (forthcoming in late 2009).
Editor. It's Not You It's Me: The Poetry of Breakup and Divorce. New York: The Overlook Press (forthcoming in 2010).
Journals:
Williams, Jerry. “A Burden.” Evergreen Review. Forthcoming.
A Fine Powder.” The Helen Burns Poetry Anthology: New Voices from the Academy of American Poets' University and College Prizes. 1999-2008. Forthcoming.
Bed, Bath, and Beyond.” Drunken Boat. Forthcoming.
Murder or Suicide in the Father Poems of John Berryman's Dream Songs.” Drunken Boat. Forthcoming.
Review of The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth by Joshua Marie Wilkinson.” Pleiades. Forthcoming.
Truck.” New Ohio Review (No. 5, Spring 2009): 74-78.
Menstruation Blues.” Pleiades (Vol. 29 No. 2, 2009): 19-20.
Truce.” New Ohio Review (No. 3, Spring 2008): 177-178.
The Tonight Show.” Minnesota Review (No. 70 Spring/Summer 2008): 27-28.
Review of No Real Light by Joe Wenderoth.” Pleiades (Vol. 28 No. 2, 2008): 212-215.
Gem City.” Barrow Street (Winter 2008): 219.
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Williams, Jerry. Poetry Reading and Interview. Joe Milford Poetry Show. BlogTalkRadio. February 28, 2009.
Poetry Reading. Stella Adler Studio. Sponsored by the Harold Clurman Reading Series. September 25, 2008.
Poetry Reading. Asian-American Writers Workshop. Sponsored by Drunken Boat. August 28, 2008.
Poetry Reading. Barnes and Noble. Sponsored by the Bronx Arts Council. August 15, 2008.
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