People
- Helen Ganiy
- Graduate Student
- At Rutgers Since: 2021
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Primary Areas of Specialization: 20th and 21st Century Black Literature
- Field of Interest: African-American & Diaspora, Caribbean, Environmental Humanities, Hemispheric, Postcolonial, Sound Studies, Theory, Twentieth Century, Writing
- Undergraduate Courses Taught:
ENG 350:104 - College Writing
ENG 350:101: Expository Writing
ENG 350:201 - Principles of Literary Study
- Other Publications:
"From Human to Humus: Terrapolisian Materiality as Metaphysical Possibility in Patrick Chamoiseau's Slave Old Man (1997)" - ISLE, 2025
- Mitchell Edwards
- PhD Candidate
- At Rutgers Since: 2021
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This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Primary Areas of Specialization: Cold War-era culture and politics; bibliography and book history; radical print cultures; the sociology of literature; movement literatures; literature and institutions
- Field of Interest: African-American & Diaspora, Book and Media History, Twentieth Century
- About:
Mitchell Edwards is a PhD candidate in English at Rutgers. His research considers the social and political uses of literature in twentieth-century America. He is at work on a dissertation about post-1945 movement literatures, from the Beats to Toni Morrison’s circle. The project reconstructs the collaborative literary culture sustained by these movements, bringing bibliographical and archival methods to bear on their print networks and infrastructures.
Mitchell is also a member of the Rutgers Initiative for the Book and graduate fellow for the Black Bibliography Project.
- Undergraduate Courses Taught:
359:360 – Reading as a Printer
359:201 – Principles of Literary Study
355:101 – College Writing
- Other Publications:
"Flip This House: Caroline Emmerton's Activist Hermeneutics and The House of the Seven Gables." The Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 51, no. 2 (December 2025): 192-219. https://doi.org/10.5325/nathhawtrevi.51.2.0192.
"'Heaven save the market!': Henry James in the Fin de Siècle Literary Field." The Henry James Review 45, no. 2 (2024): 171-186. https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2024.a926113.
- Education: A.B. Harvard University, May 2018
- Alicia Rosenthal
- Graduate Student
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Office Hours:
Thursday 12-1 pm via Zoom
- Primary Areas of Specialization: 19th c. British Literature, the gothic, feminism, genre, the novel, fin de siè·cle British Literature, imperialism, colonialism
- Field of Interest: Critical Race Studies, Gender & Sexuality, Romantic, Victorian
- About:
Alicia Rosenthal is a PhD student in English Literature. Her primary field of interest is 19th c. British Literature.
Her current academic preoccupations primarily center on the intersections of the gothic and human rights. To this end, she often works and writes within the topics of gender and sexuality and imperialism in the context of British Literature and media.
- Education: BA in English and History from Boston University 2018
- Isabel Jaramillo
- Graduate Student
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Field of Interest: African-American & Diaspora, Asian-American, Caribbean, Critical Race Studies, Gender & Sexuality, Nineteenth-Century American, Postcolonial, Theory
- Alice Martin
- Graduate Student
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Primary Areas of Specialization: Nineteenth Century American and Transatlantic Literature, Women's Writing, Print and Manuscript Cultures, Creative Writing and Writing Studies, Critical Pedagogy
- Field of Interest: Book and Media History, Creative Writing Studies, Gender & Sexuality, Nineteenth-Century American, Victorian
- About:
Alice Martin is a PhD candidate in English at Rutgers University, where she works on nineteenth-century American women's writing and manuscript culture. Her academic work has appeared in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers and is forthcoming in Feminist Pedagogy. Alice is also an award-winning fiction writer; her debut novel, Westward Women, is forthcoming from St. Martin's Press in 2026. She teaches a range of literature, composition, and creative writing courses to students across the disciplines.
- Education: B.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill M.A. New York University