People
- Michael Monescalchi
- First-Year Writing Course Coordinator
- Assistant Teaching Professor
- At Rutgers Since: 2012
- Email:
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- About:
Michael Monescalchi earned his Ph.D. from Rutgers University's English Department in 2019 after completing a pre-doctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently Coordinator of First-Year Writing and Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of English and Writing Program.
Before becoming Coordinator of First-Year Writing, Monescalchi collaborated on the redesign of the first-year writing course at Rutgers (College Writing) and trained faculty in the new curriculum. He also helped develop the curriculum for the internship course that trains Writing Center tutors and the inaugural version of the first-year writing course for the Honors College, Exposition and Argument. As a scholar invested in recovering and upholding disenfranchised voices, Monescalchi also teaches courses in American and African American literature and has vast experience teaching Rutgers' first-generation college students through the Educational Opportunity Fund and Rutgers Future Scholars programs.
Monescalchi's research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Early American Literature and Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture and has been supported by the Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Society of Early Americanists. He won the Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education Award from the Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences in 2015.
- 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: Introduction to 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
- 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:
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
- "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)
Other Publications- "Looking Over Bet's Shoulders: The Archive and the Albany Arson Plot." Early American Studies Miscellany (2024)
- "Cultivating Curiosity: Phillis Wheatley in Newport." Early American Studies Miscellany (2024)
- "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.
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