People
- Michael Monescalchi
- Assistant Teaching Professor
- At Rutgers Since: 2012
- Email: monescalchi.michael@rutgers.edu
- Education:
- Ph.D, Rutgers University, Literatures in English, October 2019
- M.A., Rutgers University, Literatures in English, October 2015
- B.A., University at Albany, SUNY, English (with Honors), 2012
- Courses Taught:
English Department
- English 327, "From Witches to Reformers: Early American Women Writers"
- English 206, "Introduction to Literary Studies: True Crime and Early American Literature"
- English 201, "Principles of Literary Study: American Literature to 1865"
- English 201, "Principles of Literary Study: Race and Gender in American Literature, Then and Now"
- English 201, "Principles of Literary Study: Poetry"
Writing Program
- English 395, "Writing Theory and Tutoring Internship" (for Plangere, Livingston, and Douglass Writing Centers)
- English 201, "Research in the Disciplines" (topics: Religion and Politics; Gender in the Workplace; Science, Medicine, and Society)
- English 103, "Exposition & Argument" (Honors College course)
- English 104, "College Writing Extended"
- English 101, "College Writing"
- English 101, "Expository Writing"
- English 097, "Summer Institute Writing Practicum for the Educational Opportunity Fund Program"
Honors College
- Interdisciplinary seminar: "The Invention of True Crime in Early America"
- Awards:
Fellowships
- Barra Dissertation Fellow and Carpenter Fellow in Early American Religious Studies, McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 2018-2019.
- Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University, 2018-2019, declined.
- School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship, Rutgers University, 2016-2017.
Teaching Award
Other Awards
- Society of Early Americanists' Junior Scholar of the Month, September 2019.
- Catherine Musello Cantalupo Essay Prize in Literature and Religion, Rutgers University, English Department, 2017.
- Other Information of Interest:
Ad-hoc Peer Reviewer
- Atlantic Studies
- Religion and Literature
- Publications:
- "Converted Republic: Lemuel Haynes, Timothy Dwight, and the Anti-Racist Politics of the Republican Sermon." Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 53 (2024)
- "Phillis Wheatley, Samuel Hopkins, and the Rise of Disinterested Benevolence." Early American Literature 54.2 (2019)
- "On Virtue: Phillis Wheatley with Jonathan Edwards." Common-place 15.3 (2017)
- "Genre and Nationality in Nineteenth-Century British and American Poetry," in Teaching Transatlanticism: Resources for Teaching Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Print Culture (Edinburgh UP, 2015) with Meredith McGill, Scott Challener, Isaac Cowell, Bakary Diaby, Lauren Kimball, and Melissa Parrish.
