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  • Ahn, Haemee

  • Allen, Deborah

  • Alms, Anthony

    • Anthony Alms
    • Anthony Alms
    • Assistant Teaching Professor
    • At Rutgers Since: 2003
    • Education:
      • Ph.D., Musicology, Graduate Center of the City University of New York
      • M.M., Music Performance, Boston University
      • B.A., Music, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
    • Courses Taught:

      Undergraduate

      • Basic Composition
      • Expository Writing
      • Business Writing Essentials
      • College Writing and Research
      • Scientific and Technical Writing
      • Writing for Business and the Professions

       

      Graduate

      • Writing about Music
    • Awards:
      • Outstanding Contributions to the Rutgers Writing Program by a Full-Time Instructor, 2017
    • Publications:
      • The Tragedy of Leo Armenius: Gryphius, Music, and the Divine Telos of History, The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory 92.1 (2017): 63-85.
      • Adapting an Adaptation: Martin Opitz's Dafne among the Italians, Early Music 40.1 (2012): 27-44.
      • Sound Theology: Musical Morality in the Opera Seelewig, Journal of Music Research Online 2 (2011): 1-17.
  • Ansine, Janet

    • Janet Ansine
    • Janet Ansine
    • Assistant Teaching Professor
    • At Rutgers Since: 2011
    • Phone Number: 9084038735
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    • Education:

      MS in Education/Language Arts Literacy

      • Purdue Global (formerly Kaplan University)

      BA in Early Childhood Education/English

      • Kean University
    • Courses Taught:
      • RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
      • 355:101 Expository Writing
      • 355:100 Basic Composition
      • 355:100R Basic Composition with Reading
      • EOF Summer Institute
      • MIDDLESEX COUNTY COLLEGE
      • ENG 009 Developmental Reading I
      • ENG 010 Developmental Reading II
      • ENG 011 Developmental Writing
      • ENG 121 English Composition I
      • ENG  121S English Composition I Supplemental
      • ENG 122 English Composition II
    • Awards:
      • Member, Alpha Beta Kappa Honors Society, Delta Zeta Chapter
    • Other Information of Interest:

  • Ashley, Brie

  • Bass, Jonathan

    • Jonathan Bass
    • Jonathan Bass
    • Associate Teaching Professor
    • Office: Loree 010, Cook/Douglass Campus
    • Office Hours: Fall 2019: Mondays and Thursdays, 2-3 pm
  • Becker, Brian

    • Brian Becker
    • Brian Becker
    • Director of the Writing Program Institute & Placement and Testing
    • Assistant Teaching Professor
    • brianbeckercv2018.pdf
    • Office: 43 Mine St, Room 201 College Avenue Campus
    • About:
      • Brian has been teaching with the Writing Program since 2016.
      • He finished his PhD at Rutgers in 2015. He has also worked with educational publishers since 2005, helping to write, edit, and design test-prep and other materials.
      • His work at Rutgers is relatively diverse--he writes and assesses the placement test for incoming students (approximately 6,000-7,000 students per year), and he coordinates Basic Composition (100) and Composition Skills (098) for the Writing Program.
      • He is currently at work creating an free, open-source textbook for Basic Composition students and completing some personal writing projects.
    • Education:
      • Ph.D. - Literatures in English, Rutgers, Completed May 2015
      • Dissertation - “Folk Moderns and Modern Folks: Media, Modernity, and the Migration of Real Americans”
      • M.A. - Humanities, The University of Chicago, Completed May 2006
      • Thesis: "Folk-Modernism: Intersection and Overlap in Sherwood Anderson and Jean Toomer"
      • B.A. - English, The George Washington University, Completed May 2005
    • Courses Taught:
      • Composition:
      • Expository Writing (101), Basic Composition with Reading (100R), Composition Skills (098), English as Academic Discourse I (155), English as Academic Discourse II (156), Research in the Disciplines (201)
      • Literature:
      • Principles of Literary Study: Prose, Twentieth-Century American Literature, Black Narrative, Harlem Renaissance, Introduction to American Literature I and II
    • Awards:
      • Graduate School Fellowship, 2014 – 2015. 
      • Dissertation Teaching Award, Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences, Honorable Mention, 2013 – 2014. 
      • Summer Departmental Funding, Summer 2013, Summer 2014. 
      • Graduate School Fellowship, 2011 – 2012. 
      • Mellon Summer Departmental Funding, Summer 2011, Summer 2012. 
      • Presidential Fellowship, Rutgers, 2008 – 2009. 
      • Teaching or Research Assistant Funding, 2009 – 2010, 2010 – 2011, 2012 – 2013, 2013 – 2014. 
      • Enosinian Scholar, Outstanding Undergraduate Research, George Washington University, 2005.
    • Publications:
      • "Radio's Disappearing Act: The Modern Folks," Raritan Quarterly, Fall 2018
  • Bender, Tisha

    • Tisha Bender
    • Associate Teaching Professor
    • At Rutgers Since: 2004
    • Phone Number: 9084102469
    • Books:
      • Discussion-Based Online Teaching to Enhance Student Learning: Theory, Practice and Assessment (Stylus, 2003)
      • Discussion-Based Online Teaching to Enhance Student Learning: Theory, Practice and Assessment, Second Edition (Stylus, 2012)
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      • P.U.N.C.H. (A Novel) (Champlain Avenue Books, 2016) - A Satire of a Fictitious Online University
      • And All is Always Now (A Novel) (2018) - A Romance set within a Time-Travel Framework
    • Education:
      • Postdoc: Harvard and UCLA, 1978
      • Ph.D.: London School of Economics, 1977
      • B.Soc.Sci.: Bristol University, 1974
    • Courses Taught:
      • The Ethics of Food
      • The Ethics of Urban Development
    • Awards:
      • SAS Award: Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education, May 2015
  • Beroiza, Alanna

    • Alanna Beroiza
    • Alanna Beroiza
    • Assistant Teaching Professor
    • At Rutgers Since: 2019
    • Education:
      • PhD, Rice University
      • BA, Bowdoin College
    • Courses Taught:

      Undergraduate

      • English for Academic Purposes II
      • Expository Writing
      • Exposition and Argument
      • Principles of Literary Studies: Poetry
      • Research in the Disciplines: Being Human: Medical Humanities

      Graduate

      • Writing for Publication
      • Writing the Dissertation
    • Publications:
      • Alanna Beroiza, “How Pictures Make Bodies and Bodies Make Pictures: Gender as a Scopic System in Annie Leibovitz’s Photographs of Caitlyn Jenner for Vanity Fair and Pedro Almodóvar’s La piel que habito,” Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies, 35.2 (2020): 1-35. 
  • Bignall, Ian

    • Ian Bignall
    • Ian Bignall
    • Assistant Teaching Professor
    • At Rutgers Since: 2011
    • Education:
      • BA, Sarah Lawrence College, 2005
      • MA (Oxon), Oxford University, 2008
      • MA, Rutgers University, 2013
    • Courses Taught:
      • Rutgers Writing Program:
      • 355:100R Basic Composition
      • 355:101 Expository Writing
      • 355:103 Exposition and Argument
      • Department of Literatures in English:
      • 359:201 Principles of Literary Study: Poetry
      • 359:202 Principles of Literary Study: Prose
      • 358:361 Twentieth-Century Literature in a Global Context
      • Department of Women's and Gender Studies
      • 988:130 Knowledge and Power: Issues in Women's Leadership
    • Awards:
      • Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education, 2017
    • Membership Affiliations:
      • Modern Language Association; Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present
  • Blomquist, Sara

  • Bouhlas, Arete

  • Bryan, Jennifer

    • Jennifer Bryan
    • Jennifer Bryan
    • Assistant Teaching Professor
    • CV.pdf
    • Education:
      • PhD, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2013
      • MFA, Bowling Green State University, 2007
      • BA, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 1995
    • Courses Taught:
      • Creative Writing: Fiction
      • Expository Writing
      • Exposition and Argument
      • Digital Storytelling
      • Multimedia Composition
      • Research in the Disciplines

       

    • Publications:

      Short Stories in Anthologies

      • “Pigtail Fatty.” Best of Ohio Short Stories: Volume II. Editors Emily Hitchcock and Brad Pauquette. Columbus Creative Cooperative, 2016. 96-117. Print.

      Short Stories

      • “When You Wanted Me.” Sycamore Review 26.2 (Spring 2015): 104-116. Print.
      • “Trying to Know You.” The Baltimore Review (2015): 190-197. Print.
      • “Just Beneath.” REAL: Regarding Arts & Letters 38.1 (Fall/Winter 2014): 29-43. Print.
      • “We’re Not Together.” Isthmus 1 (Spring 2014): 59-69. Print.
      • “Becoming.” The Summerset Review (Spring 2014). Web.
      • “Assumption.” LIT 15 & 16 (Winter & Spring 2009): 153-160. Print.
      • “What Happened When the Young Woman Turned Thirty-five.” The Missouri Review 31.4 (Winter 2008): 60-77. Print.
      • “We Made It Home.” The GW Review (Fall 2008): 41-50. Print.
      • “The Faster They Run the More They Burn.” Fifth Wednesday Journal (Spring 2008): 29-36. Print.
      • “Sock Monkey.” New Ohio Review 2 (Fall 2007): 60-68. Print.
      • “Super 8.” Flyway: A Literary Review 10.3-11.1 (Spring/Fall 2007): 37-49. Print.
      • “Frankenstein.” Santa Clara Review 94.2 (Spring/Summer 2007): 131-140. Print.
      • “Wonder Twins.” The Madison Review 27.2 (Spring 2006): 1-8. Print.
  • Buchan, Mark

    • Mark Buchan
    • Mark Buchan
    • Assistant Teaching Professor
    • At Rutgers Since: 8/2018
    • Phone Number: 917-608-9454
    • MarkBuchanCV13.pdf
    • About:
      • I have taught Classics at the University of Washington, Princeton,  and Columbia Universities. I have also translated Greek tragedies for the New York stage, including a musical version of Oedipus Rex.  I am currently working on a book contrasting ancient and modern modes of love. 
    • Books:
    • Education:
      • PhD, Classics, University of Michigan (1996)
      • MA, Comparative Literature, University of Michigan (1995)
      • BA/MA, Classics, University of Cambridge (1988)
    • Other Information of Interest:
      • I am interested in exploring the 'musical theater aspects of 5th Century Athens, as well as ways of transferring and translating the creativity of Ancient Greek poetry for contemporary audiences.
    • Publications:
  • Budd, Tracy

  • Buzick, Alex

    • Alex Buzick
    • Alex Buzick
    • Assistant Teaching Professor
    • At Rutgers Since: 2015
    • Education:
      • PhD, MA [2014, 2010] Classical Philology • Fordham University
      • BA [2000] Classical Studies • Dickinson College
  • Caponegro, Mihaela Carla

    • Mihaela Carla Caponegro
    • Mihaela Carla Caponegro
    • Director of the Plangere Writing Center
    • Assistant Teaching Professor
    • At Rutgers Since: 2016
    • Education:
      • Ph. D. - Princeton University - Early Modern French Literature 
      • M. A. - Princeton University - French and Italian 
      • B. A.  - Rutgers University - French Cultural Studies 
    • Courses Taught:

       

      • Expository Writing Rutgers University 
      • Basic Composition  Rutgers University 
      • English for Academic Discourse  EAD II - Fall 2018 
      • “Contemporary France”, FRE171, Spring 2018
      • “French Cinema” - FRE 221 –Fall 2015 TCNJ
      • Italian Language and Culture Courses ITA 101-102– TCNJ, 2013 - 2014 
      • French Language and Culture Courses FRE 101, 102, 103 - TCNJ 2013 - 2018
      • Humanities, “French and Fashion” Fall 2013, Spring 2014
      • “Inventing Identity in 16th Century” – Fordham University Spring 2013
      • “French Literature and Culture”  Fordham University Fall 2012, Spring 2013
      • “Advanced Grammar Review”  Fordham University Fall 2012, Spring 2013
      • The Construction of the French State and French Identity, Princeton University Spring 2012
      • French Culture Courses FRE 105-213 – Princeton University Fall 2007- Spring 2009
      • Italy on Film – Princeton University - Spring 2009
      • French Introduction FRE 101-102-103- Princeton University 2005-2008
  • Celi, Claire

    • Claire Celi
    • Claire Celi
    • Assistant Teaching Professor
    • At Rutgers Since: 2018
    • Office: Loree Hall, rm 006
    • Office Hours: Tues/Thurs from 12-1 pm
    • About:

      Claire has been teaching writing at the college-level since graduating with her MA in Rhetoric from Carnegie Mellon University in 2017. Before coming to Rutgers, Claire also taught various undergraduate writing courses at Kean University and Ramapo College. She tutored in Carnegie Mellon's writing center while she was there as a graduate student, and worked as an 8th grade Language Arts teacher for two years before that. Claire enjoys working with developing writers, encouraging them to use the writing process as a way of taking rhetorical agency in their lives.

      When she's not teaching writing, Claire enjoys spending time with her family, drinking good coffee, and being outside in beautiful weather. 

    • Education:
      • MA Rhetoric, Carnegie Mellon University, 2017
      • BA Literature, Ramapo College of New Jersey, 2014
      • NJ K-12 English Teacher Certification, 2014
    • Courses Taught:
      • Basic Composition
      • Expository Writing
      • Research in the Disciplines
        • Topics: The Search for Meaning; Love & Sex; Conspiracy Theories
      • College Writing & Research
        • Topics: Love & Sex
  • Decker, Elizabeth

    • Elizabeth Decker
    • Elizabeth Decker
    • Director of Exposition and Argument
    • Assistant Teaching Professor
    • At Rutgers Since: 2019
    • Education:

      PhD, The Graduate Center, CUNY
      MA, University of St. Louis--Madrid Campus
      BA, University of Notre Dame 

    • Courses Taught:
      • Undergraduate
        • 355: 100R Basic Composition
        • 355: 101 Expository Writing
        • 355: 103 Exposition and Argument
        • 355: 201 Research in the Disciplines
          • Modern Motherhood
          • Science, Medicine, and Society
      • Graduate
        • 355: 506 Writing for Publication
        • 355: 508 Writing the Dissertation
        • 356: 611 Writing Studio
  • DeSorbo, Natalie

    • Natalie DeSorbo
    • Natalie DeSorbo
    • RU-Path Program Manager and Assistant Teaching Professor
    • Assistant Teaching Professor
    • At Rutgers Since: 2015

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