English Department Full Time Faculty

English @ Drew -- Meet the Faculty
Peggy Samuels, Associate Professor of English,(Department Chair) Office: Sitterly House 107 Campus Extension: 3086 Email: psamuels@drew.edu Areas of Specialization: Milton, seventeenth-century British literature, contemporary American poetry, creative writing (fiction and poetry), Bible as literature

Mandakini Dubey, Assistant Professor of English Office: Sitterly House 305 Campus Extension: 3815 Email: mdubey@drew.edu Areas of Specialization: Victorian literature, Anglophone literature, colonial discourse analysis, postcolonial literature, gender and sexuality.

Jim Hala, Professor of English Office: Sitterly House 205 Campus Extension: 3297 Email: jhala@drew.edu Areas of Specialization: Old & Middle English literature; Celtic and Continental European Medieval literatures; Linguistics; critical theory; gender studies; film.

Sandra Jamieson, Professor of English, and Director of Composition Office: Sitterly House 306 Campus Extension: 3287 Email: sjamieso@drew.edu Areas of Specialization: Composition theory and pedagogy; creative non-fiction (articles and travel writing); contemporary American literature, Ethnic-American literature; critical theory. Recent Publications: Coming of Age: The Advanced Writing Curriculum, with Linda Shamoon, Rebecca Moore Howard, and Robert Schwegler (Heinemann, 2000), Winner of the WPA Best Book Award for 2000-2001; The Bedford Guide to Teaching Writing in the Disciplines: An Instructor's Desk Reference, with Rebecca Moore Howard (Bedford Books, 1995).

Wendy Kolmar, Professor of English, and Director of Women's Studies Office: Sitterly House 204 Campus Extension: 3632 Email: wkolmar@drew.edu Areas of specialization: Victorian literature; women's literature; Gothic and supernatural fiction; women's studies and feminist theory; film studies. Recent Publications: Feminist Theory: A Reader co-edited with Fran Bartkowski (Mayfield, 2004); Ghost Stories by British and American Women: An Annotated Bibliography co-authored with Lynette Carpenter (Garland, 1999); Creating an Inclusive College Curriculum: A Teaching Sourcebook from the New Jersey Project. Co-edited with Ellen Friedman, Charlie Flint, and Paula Rothenberg (Teachers' College Press, 1995).

Cassandra Laity, Associate Professor of English Office: Sitterly House 207 Campus Extension: 3141 Email: claity@drew.edu Areas of Specialization: Anglo-American Modernisms, modern poetry, feminist criticism/theory, critical theory, late-Victorian poetry and fiction. Recent Publications: H.D. and the Victorian Fin de Siecle: Gender, Modernism, Decadence, (Cambridge University Press, 1996).

Neil Levi, Assistant Professor of English Office: Sitterly House 303 Campus Extension: 3821 Email: nlevi@drew.edu Areas of Specialization: Twentieth century British and comparative literature, critical theory, the Holocaust. Recent Publications: The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings, co-edited with Michael Rothberg (Rutgers University Press, 2003).

Frank Occhiogrosso, Professor of English Office: Sitterly House 201 Campus Extension: 3287 Email: focchiog@drew.edu Areas of specialization: Shakespeare; Renaissance literature; Modern drama; American drama. Recent Publications: Shakespeare in Performance: A Collection of Essays, (University of Delaware Press, 2002).

Nicky Ollman, Professor of English Office: Sitterly House 106 Campus Extension: 3300 Email: nollman@drew.edu Areas of Specialization: Seventeenth century and Eighteenth century British literature with a focus on literature by women; fairy tales.

Robert Ready, Professor of English Office: Sitterly House 203 Campus Extension: 3302 Email: rready@drew.edu Areas of specialization: Nineteenth century British Literature; creative writing; contemporary literary theory; interdisciplinary humanities.

Merrill Skaggs, Professor of English Office: Sitterly House 208 Campus Extension: 3491 Email: mskaggs@drew.edu Areas of Specialization: American literature, Southern literature, American Romantics, Willa Cather Recent Publications: Willa Cather's New York: New Essays on Cather in the City, Editor. (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2001)

Gerry Smith-Wright, Professor of English Office: Sitterly House 206 Campus Extension: 3287 Email: gsmithwr@drew.edu Areas of Specialization: 19th century American literature, Women's literature, African American literature, Ethnic-American literature.

Charli Valdez, Assistant Professor of English Office: Sitterly House 105 Campus Extension: 3167 Email: cvaldez@drew.edu Areas of Specialization: American literature, Latino/Latina literature, creative writing (fiction, creative non-fiction). Recent and Forthcoming Publications: "Interview with Mark Doty," American Voices, 2004; "A Seduction" (fiction), Room of One's Own, 2003; "Queen vs. Knave" (fiction), Small Spiral Notebook, 2001; "Flipside of Passion" (fiction), Wordworks, 2000.

Erec Smith, Assistant Professor of Writing, and University Writing Center Director Office: Sitterly House 304 Campus Extension: 3208 Email: essmith@drew.edu. Areas of Specialization: Writing Center theory, composition theory, rhetorical theory, African American literature. Recent Publications: "CultureWise: Narrative as Research, Research as Narrative" with Jennifer Cohen, Paula Mathieu, Vershawn Young, and Bridget Harris Tsemo. Works and Days, Ed. Gian S. Pagnucci, Nicholas Mauriello. V.17-18, 1999-2000 (425-452); "Surviving the MLA Interview: Notes on Honesty and Awareness" Lore: An E-Journal for Teachers of Writing;
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