People

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• Teresa Ramoni
• PhD Candidate
• At Rutgers Since: 2020
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• Primary Areas of Specialization: Twentieth and Twenty-first Century American Literature, Film Studies, Adaptation Studies, Television, Music.
• Undergraduate Courses Taught:

  Expository Writing, College Writing, Principles of Literary Study. 

• Awards:

  April 2023, The Marius Bewley Prize for the Best Essay in Coursework, Honorable Mention. "'What was taking place behind the curtained bed' : Reading Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood as a 'Rape Novel.'"

  May 2020, Best Horror Film, "Captor." Inwood Arts NYC Quarantine Film Festival. 

• Other Publications:

   

  "'If the answers were on tickets': the Formal and Filmic Politics of Langston Hughes' Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz." Literature/Film Quarterly, 53.4, 2025. 

  "'What was taking place behind the curtained bed': Reading Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood as a Rape Novel." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature,  44.1, 2025. 

  "Review: Women's Music for the Screen: Diverse Narratives in Sound." Sound Studies Review, 1.2, 2023. 

  "'To Mimic My Voice': Gender, Power, and Narration in Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland." Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 2023. 

  With Margaret Toth, "'Their Voices Ring in My Ears': Laura, The Fugue, and Adaptation." Adaptation (Oxford), 14.1, 2021. 

  "Plaintive Restraints: Facing the Music of Kate Chopin's The Awakening." The Sigma Tau Delta Review, Vol. 94, 2019. 

• Membership Affiliations:

  The Literature/Film Association 

• Other Information of Interest:

  Conference Papers:

  September 2023, "'Stabler's back. But Liv never left': The Problematization of the Ending in American Episodic Television." To Be Continued 3: Defining, Producing, Performing, Consuming, and Theorizing Serials and Adaptations. University of Delaware. 

  April 2023, “Getting out of the Ring: Metaphor and Mythology in The Wrestler (2008) and Lights Out (2011).” Rutgers Graduate English Symposium. 

  April 2022, "Where the Crawdads Go: Charting Community, Genre, and Prestige in Reese's Book Club." Rutgers Graduate English Symposium.

  February 2022, "'My Book Was Then As You Are Now': The Intertextual and Interpersonal Connections of E.M. Forster's Howards End and Matthew Lopez's The Inheritance." Literature Film Association/The Association of Adaptation Studies Joint Conference. 

• Education: BA, Manhattan College

• 
• Siddhant Datta
• Graduate Student
• At Rutgers Since: 2022
• Primary Areas of Specialization: Long 18th Century; Infrastructure studies; Systems theory; Postcolonial theory
• Field of Interest: Postcolonial, Restoration & Eighteenth Century, Theory
• About:

  Co-ordinator: Long 18th-Century Transatlantic Studies Group 

• Education: M.A. English, University of Delhi

• 
• Michael Ducker
• Graduate Student

• 
• Elliot Frank
• Graduate Student
• At Rutgers Since: 2022
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• Field of Interest: Postcolonial, Theory, Twentieth Century

Elliot Frank is a fifth year PhD student in English at Rutgers University. His dissertation re-examines the concept of “committed literature” within the context of 20th century American novels and combines approaches from Marxist literary criticism and the sociology of literature.