Literature Program
The Literature Program
Split This Rock Poetry Festival - April 2018
As part of the Literature program, Stockton students can choose from concentrations in Literary Studies, Creative Writing and Theatre-English, or pursue a simultaneous study of literature while earning K-12 or Secondary English Education certifications.
The program prepares students for an array of intellectual and professional pursuits, ranging from graduate scholarship to careers in writing, archival and library science, editing, publishing, teaching, and beyond. Literature students can also apply to take part in a new a dual-degree program in Literature and American Studies, allowing them to graduate with both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in five years’ time.
Mission Statement
Literature engages students in the practice of reading and writing as a means of learning from the past and looking toward the future, training them to ask questions about the nature of the world around them. Students develop strong foundational communication, research, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills to become effective citizens and thinkers across a variety of careers and fields of study. In our increasingly global society where so much of our culture and commerce depends on online, text-based interaction, clear writers and creative thinkers have never been more in-demand.
Nathan Long
Program Chair, Professor of Creative Writing
Nathan.Long@stockton.edu
609-626-4887 | H-246
The students of the Literature program have a long history of reading about political and social upheaval and the effects of white supremacy. Some have been inspired to protest as well as to seek careers focused on mending the damage done by police and law enforcement institutions and racial and economic inequality. The Stockton University Literature Program joins this community and the university in denouncing the “senseless death [of George Floyd, which] occurred as we mourned the recent deaths of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia and Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky, while our African American and Latinx communities continue to face the disproportionate social, health, and economic hardships related to the COVID-19 pandemic” (Statement from Stockton University President Harvey Kesselman, 5/31/2020). We stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and protesters and activists.
As faculty, we pledge to continue to identify, combat, and expose racism and other forms of social inequality. The Literature Program specifically commits to the following:
- Curricular commitment: The Literature program affirms its commitment to
- foregrounding the literary contributions of Black, Indigenous, and other non-white writers in all Literature courses offered, as well as
- offering critical approaches and dedicated courses that address of the history of white supremacy in literature (such dedicated courses include Cultures of Colonialism and Race and the Making of US Literature) and
- offering courses specifically focused on writers of color (including Native American Literature, Literatures of Asia-Pacific, Intro to African American Literature, Literature of the Harlem Renaissance, Spoken Word/Advanced Spoken Word, and Introduction to Global Literature)
- Pedagogical commitment to equity, social justice, and anti-racism: The Literature
program faculty will continue to advocate for and engage in pedagogies that dismantle
white supremacy. We think deeply about these issues, and seek to move beyond the superficial
and performative allyship that does so much damage to the spirits of people of color.
We recognize that we (LITT faculty) always have more to learn and that we are always
continuing to educate ourselves about how to be anti-racist and more supportive of
our Black students. Our hearts and minds are open to everyone who wants to discuss
these matters. Feel free to write the program coordinator directly or reach out to
any of your LITT professors.
- Community diversity and institutional change: To help produce foundational change, we publicly support our faculty, staff, students, and alumni of color and other marginalized bodies. Program co-curricular events will continue this work. We are committed to lifelong learning, and we will continue to educate ourselves, our colleagues, our students, and our community.
We also wish to acknowledge the various academic programs, universities, and organizations that have issued similar statements that helped shape and inspire our own. Specifically, we wish to acknowledge the work of Stockton University’s Africana Studies program, and the Stockton University Unified Black Students Society.
We encourage you to explore the following resources:
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Black Liberation Reading List: https://www.nypl.org/blog/2020/06/03/schomburg-center-black-liberation-reading-list
- Black-owned bookstore Uncle Bobbie’s in Philadelphia, owned by Temple Professor Mark Lamont Hill. This link includes recommended Black culture/activism/liberation books. https://unclebobbies.indielite.org/
- How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/564299/how-to-be-an-antiracist-by-ibram-x-kendi/
- The Black Women Radicals Database: https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/database
- The American Literature Society’s Black Lives Matter Teaching Resources google document. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fnnYI9gEzAkyb81VhtC05TAiaFi0XXORpoB1JBpiSk4/edit?usp=sharing
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Curriculum
The Literature Program offers degrees in the following concentrations:
The program also offers a minor in Literature.
To view the curriculum, you’ll use the web program, Degree Works. This program is accessible even if you are not currently a student with Stockton University.
Current Students
Access your portal for Degree Works, then look for the “what if” option to explore the various paths towards degree completion. Click the button below for instructional videos on how to use Degree Works:
Prospective First Year or Transfer Students
Use the button below:
How to Use Degree Works Equivalency:
- At the next page you are prompted with three (3) options. Select the one that says “continue without signing in.”
- Respond to each prompt using the pull-down menu in the center of the page. [Please be patient. It may take a few seconds for the system to process your request. If you see a NO symbol, you need to wait a moment!]
Prompts include:
- Enrollment dates (Choose intended semester attending)
- Intended level (Choose “undergraduate”)
- What degree you will pursue? (Choose “Bachelor of Arts”)
- What is your intended major? (Choose “Literature”)
- What is your intended concentration? (Choose one of the concentrations listed above)
- What is your intended minor? (Choose “none” or select one - it is not required).
- For prospective students, choose “I’m all done" button.
- For transfer students, use the “class” button to see how courses already taken fit into the Stockton degree path.
- You will see an overview of the degree you have selected, including all requirements.
- At the bottom of the screen, you could save or print the worksheet.
To view the Course Schedule by term, click here.
See the Catalog of Courses for complete descriptions of course offerings.
For detailed curriculum information, please refer to the Academic Bulletin.
Top Five Reasons to Study Literature at Stockton
- Global Awareness
Because “poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before” (Audre Lorde): literature contains all the disciplines— from science, politics, history, religion and philosophy to psychology, economics, music, art, and film. When you study literature, you study the world. - Critical Thinking
Because “language is a virus” (Laurie Anderson) and knowledge of it is the cure: Literature majors can become experts in using language to understand and to critique our systems of knowledge and perception. - Communication Skills
Because inarticulateness is well, like, bad: the critical thinking, written and verbal communication skills Literature majors develop allow them to enter a variety of careers as well as graduate study. In fact, English is the language of international business. As a result, employers, such as Logitech CEO Bracken Darrell, “love hiring English majors.” - Information Literacy & Research Skills, Teamwork & Collaboration
Because Literature has some of the best professors and we will know your name: Literature offers small classes and a variety of opportunities for on- and off-campus internships and independent study—including creative writing projects, projects in the digital humanities, and opportunities to work with the South Jersey Culture & History Center. - Adapting to Change
Because you should study what you love. Have a passion for reading and writing? We will help you study what you love and find the careers that will utilize these skills.
Dual Degree Program in Literature and American Studies
The undergraduate Literature Program at Stockton offers an accelerated dual-degree program that allows Literature majors to earn a B.A. in Literature and M.A. in American Studies in five years. This intensive academic program of study includes all of the courses within the Literary Studies concentration Literature major as well as all of the courses required in the Master of Arts in American Studies program. Students may apply to the dual degree program upon admission to the university, as first-year or transfer students. Transfer students with over 96 transfer credits should use the "direct entry" application for the M.A. in American Studies.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Minimum of 96 credits
- Minimum of 20 credits in LITT courses
- 3.2 GPA minimum in the Literature major
- Grade of C or better in LITT 2114 and LITT 2123
To apply for enrollment in the Dual-Degree Program in Literature and American Studies, contact a Literature preceptor or the Chair of the Literature program.
The Irregular Littonian--Literature Program Newsletter
Literature Faculty
Emily August, Associate Professor of British Literature
Emily August
Associate Professor of British Literature
BIOGRAPHY
Emily August teaches courses on 19th-century British literature and culture, creative writing, and medical humanities. She loves teaching poetry analysis, and some of her other favorite texts to teach are Grimms’ fairy tales, Jane Eyre, Goblin Market, Dracula, and anything by Shirley Jackson.
Her scholarly research concerns the relationship between literature, medicine, and the body in the nineteenth-century; she is especially interested in the history of surgery.
Her current book project, Cadaver Poetics: Surgery and the Body in Nineteenth Century Literature examines transatlantic texts of the period that engage conceptually with contemporaneous developments in surgical practice, revealing a radical cultural shift in the definition of the human body. Her chapter “Gray Matters: Social Violence and the Victorian Surgical Textbook” appears in Embodied Difference: Divergent Bodies in Public Discourse, an edited collection of interdisciplinary scholarship.
In her poetry, Professor August uses the framework of medicine to explore a centuries-long family legacy of domestic violence. Representing the body in various states of anatomical duress, her poems investigate how violence is learned, inherited, and passed down, both interpersonally and societally, and how the body records the traumas to which it is subjected. Her poem “The Healer” was a finalist for Southern Humanities Review’s Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, appearing in the fall 2016 issue. Other poems have appeared in Missouri Review, Ninth Letter, Callaloo, Hayden’s Ferry Review,Quarterly West, and other journals.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
M.F.A., University of Minnesota
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
19th-century British literature and culture
Medical humanities and histories of medicine
Poetry and poetics
COURSES
LITT 2114: Literary Interpretation
LITT 2123: Literary Research
LITT 2237: Introduction to Creative Writing
LITT 4610: Senior Seminar
LITT 2103: British Literature II
LITT 2120: Detective Fiction
LITT 3217: Literature and Medicine
LITT 3220: British Romanticism
LITT 3615: Victorian Literature
GAH 2232: Horror in Literature and Film
GNM 2242: Ways of Knowing (Honors)
GIS 4684: Jack the Ripper's Cultural Contexts
PUBLICATIONS
My chapter “Gray Matters: Social Violence and the Victorian Surgical Textbook” will appear in Embodied Difference: Divergent Bodies in Public Discourse, an edited collection of interdisciplinary scholarship forthcoming from Lexington Books in fall of 2018.
My poem “The Healer” was a finalist for Southern Humanities Review’s 2016 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, appearing in that fall issue. Other poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Callaloo, Ninth Letter, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Quarterly West, and other journals.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Modern Language Association
Jacob Camacho, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing
Jacob Camacho
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing
Born and raised in Guåhan, Islan Marianas, Jacob is a CHamoru writer, educator, and activist. He received his Creative Writing MFA from Rutgers University, Camden and is an alumni of the University of Guam and UCLA's Extension Writers Program. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Stockton University. Previously a Lead Teacher at All Things Are Possible Foundation in Willingboro, NJ, he is a Co-Founder of the Move Mountains Project, 501(c)(3) in San Luis, Colorado. He is a former English Teacher at Philadelphia’s alternative high school, CADI, and Academic Coach for NJ’s YMCA of Burlington & Camden Counties. His short story, Proclamation, appears in University of Guam’s Storyboard 18, Half-Moon in Philadelphia's MadHouse Magazine Volume 4 and his poem, Kao siña hao fumino' Chamoru?, in University of Hawai'i Press' Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia.
He has also written a collection of stories, Conversations, for the mobile app TrailOff that provides a platform for underrepresented stories in which audiences can listen to while navigating hiking trails within and around Philadelphia. Camacho is currently working on the manuscript for his first book, TalkBoy.
EDUCATION
M.F.A. Creative Writing, Rutgers University, Camden
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Creative Writing, Fiction, Poetry, Storytelling, Spoken Word Poetry
COURSES
LITT 2155 Spoken Word Poetry
LITT 3155 Advanced Spoken Word Poetry
LITT 2237 Introduction to Creative Writing
LITT 3270 Craft and Theory Workshop
PUBLICATIONS
Half-Moon, Proclamation, Kao siña hao fumino' Chamoru?, Conversations
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Move Mountains Project 501(c)(3)
Deborah Gussman, Professor of American Literature
Deborah Gussman
Professor of American Literature
Deborah Gussman teaches courses on early and 19th-century American literature and culture, American Studies, and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. Her current research focuses on 19th-century women writers with an emphasis on literary recovery. Her scholarly edition of Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s novel Married or Single? (1857) was published by University of Nebraska Press in July 2015. Her ongoing digital project, Sedgwick Stories, is a compendium of Sedgwick’s stories, tales, and sketches originally published in 19th-century periodicals, gift-books, and other edited collections. She is also an associate editor of The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters project, currently in development.
WEBSITE
http://blogs.stockton.edu/gussman
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Rutgers, The State University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
American literature and culture (colonial - 1865), American Indian literature, American Studies, 19th-century US women writers, Feminist Studies, Digital Humanities.
COURSES
AMST 5000 Proseminar in American Studies
AMST 5001 Research Methods in American Studies
LITT 2104 Survey of American Literature I
LITT 2114 Literary Interpretation
LITT 2123 Literary Research
LITT 2140 Literature by Women
LITT 3208 Native American Indian Literature
LITT 3311 19th-Century American Women Writers
LITT 3621 Early American Literature
GAH 2358 Perspectives on Women
GIS 3614 Feminist Theory
PUBLICATIONS
“Wharton’s “New Visions”: An Exploration of the Influence of Catharine Maria Sedgwick on Bunner Sisters and The Old Maid.” In Critical Insights: Edith Wharton edited by Myrto Drizou, 65-80. Amenia, NY: Salem Press, 2018.
Editor, Married or Single?(1857) by Catharine Maria Sedgwick. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2015.
“Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Married or Single?”Companion to the American Novel. Ed. Abby Werlock. New York: Facts on File, 2006.
“’O Savage Where Art Thou?’: Rhetorics of Reform in William Apess’s Eulogy on King Philip.”The New England Quarterly 77.3 (2004): 451-477.
“‘Equal to Either Fortune’: Sedgwick’s Married or Single? and Feminism.”Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Critical Perspectives, Past and Present. L. Damon-Bach and V. Clements, eds. Boston: Northeastern UP, 2003. 252-267.
“Republican Rhetoric and Subversity: Women, Indians, and Citizenship in the 1820's.” Professing Rhetoric: Selected Papers from the 2000 Rhetoric Society of America Conference, F. Antczak, C. Coggins, and G. Klinger, eds. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002. 37-44.
"The Politics of Piety in Pequot Women's Conversion Narratives." Studies in Puritan American Spirituality. Vol. VI (1997): 101-124.
"Inalienable Rights: Fictions of Political Identity in Hobomok and The Scarlet Letter."College Literature 22.2 (1995): 58-80.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Literature Association
Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures
Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society
Lydia Maria Child Society
Edith Wharton Society
Modern Language Association
National Women’s Studies Association
Nineteenth Century American Women Writers Study Group
Society for the Study of American Women Writers.
Adalaine B. Holton, Associate Professor of Literature
Kristin Jacobson, Professor of Literature
Kristin Jacobson
Professor of Literature
BIOGRAPHY
Kristin J. Jacobson’s book, Neodomestic American Fiction (Ohio State University Press 2010) examines twentieth- and twenty-first- century revisions of domestic fiction, a popular nineteenth-century genre. The book investigates the place of the home and domesticity in contemporary American literature and culture. She has also published articles in edited collections as well as in Genre, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Legacy, and C21.
She is the lead editor of the essay collection, Liminality, Hybridity, and American Women’s Literature: Thresholds in Women’s Writing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
Her current book project focuses on extreme forms of travel and nature writing, what Jacobson calls “adrenaline narratives.” She was Vice President for Development for the Society for the Study of American Women Writers (2010-2016) and a Fulbright scholar at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece in Spring 2018.
WEBSITE
https://blogs.stockton.edu/kristinjjacobson/
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
20th -and 21st-century American literature and culture, popular culture, feminist theory and pedagogy, environmental and geographic approaches to literature, ecofeminism
COURSES
AMST 5000 Proseminar in American Studies
AMST 5001 Research Methods in American Studies
AMST 5007 Contemporary America
LITT 2114 Literary Interpretation
LITT 2123 Introduction to Literary Research
LITT 2105 American Literature II
LITT 2109 Contemporary American Fiction
LITT 2145 Family in American Literature
LITT 3125 Literary Theory and Criticism
LITT 3315 American Postmodern Fiction
LITT 3316 Contemporary American Women Writers
LITT 4610 Senior Seminar
GIS 3614 Seminar in Feminist Theory
GAH 2358 Perspectives on Women
BOOK PUBLICATION
Neodomestic American Fiction. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, December 2010.
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
“Renovating The American Woman’s Home: American Domesticity in Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.” Legacy. 25.1 (2008): 105-127.
“The Neodomestic American Novel: The Politics of Home in Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature. 24.1 (2005): 105-127. Reprint. Critical Insights: Barbara Kingsolver. Ed. Thomas Austenfeld. Pasadena: Salem Press, 2010. 216-245. Reprint. Contemporary Literary Criticism. 248 (CLC-248). Ed. Jeff Hunter. Detroit: Thomas Gale, March 2008.
“Desiring Natures: The American Adrenaline Narrative.” Genre 35.2 (2002): 355-82. Reprint. Contemporary Literary Criticism Vol. 248. Ed. Jeff Hunter. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2008.
ESSAYS IN BOOK COLLECTIONS
“Profitable Sentiments: HBO’s The Wire and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” The Sentimental Mode: Essays in Literature, Film and Television. Eds. Jennifer A. Williamson and Jennifer Larson. McFarland Publishers, 2014: 151-174.
“Imagined Geographies.” Seeds of Change: Critical Essays on Barbara Kingsolver. Ed. Priscilla V. Leder. University of Tennessee Press, 2010. 175-198. Reprint. Contemporary Literary Criticism. 342. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter. Detroit: Thomas Gale, 2013.
“This is Not a Chick Book! Anxious Male Domesticity and Gender Troubled Corrections.” Pimps, Wimps, Studs, Thugs and Gentlemen: Essays on Media Images of Masculinity. Ed. Elwood Watson. Jefferson: McFarland Publishers, 2009. 216-241.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Modern Language Association (MLA)
American Studies Association (ASA)
National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)
American Literature Association (ALA)
Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS)
Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW)
The Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)
Cynthia Arrieu-King, Associate Professor of Creative Writing
Cynthia Arrieu-King
Associate Professor of Creative Writing
BIOGRAPHY
Cynthia Arrieu-King’s teaching interests are twentieth-century poetry and fiction with attention to contemporary American poetry, specifically experimental lyric poetry by poets of color. She has explored themes of disobedience and re-appropriation in the poetry of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge and Soham Patel.
Her courses include Advanced Poetry Workshop, Spoken Word/Advanced Spoken Word, Experimental Writing Workshop, Introduction to Creative Writing, Craft and Theory, and a new General Studies course, GIS Adulting.
In her poetry, she addresses elegy and family, the voice of those rarely heard from, and the body that is simultaneously privileged and marginalized. Her new books of poetry are Futureless Languages (Radiator Press 2018) and Continuity (Octopus Books 2019).
Professor King is the Literature Program co-ordinator for Academic Years 2018-2020.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Cincinnati
WEBSITE
https://blogs.stockton.edu/cynthiaking
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
20th-century American literature, Asian-American literature, poetry
COURSES
LITT 2149 Contemporary Lyric Poem
LITT 2155 Spoken Word Poetry
LITT 2237 Introduction to Creative Writing
LITT 2238 International Contemporary Poetry
LITT 2239 Contemporary American Poetry
LITT 3155 Advanced Spoken Word Poetry
LITT 3270 Craft and Theory Workshop
LITT 3272 Avant-Garde Poetry Workshop
LITT 3635 Advanced Poetry Workshop
LITT 4610 Senior Seminar: Epic Poetry
GIS 3406 The Politics of Food
GIS 3613 Quilts
GAH 3310 Collaboration in the Arts
PUBLICATIONS
The Small Anything City (Chapbook). Dream Horse Press National Chapbook Contest, 2006.
People are Tiny in Paintings of China. Portland and Denver: Octopus Books, 2010.
By a Year Lousy with Meteors. Sophia Kartsonis, collaborator. Santa Cruz, CA: Dream Horse Press, 2012.
Manifest. Chicago: Switchback Books, 2013.
Unlikely Conditions. With Hillary Gravendyk. San Diego:. 1913 Press, 2016.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Dodge Poetry Foundation
Kundiman Asian-American Poetry Fellow|
Juniper Summer Writers Institute
Vermont Studio Center
Sky Colony
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Thomas Kinsella, Distiguished Professor of Literature, Director of the South Jersey Culture and History Center
Thomas Kinsella
Distiguished Professor of Literature, Director of the South Jersey Culture and History Center
BIOGRAPHY
Tom Kinsella has been working in the area of South Jersey Culture & History for the past several semesters. He is the director of the South Jersey Culture & History Center and heads the Literature Program’s Editing Internship. The student editing team has published several twice-yearly issues of SoJourn, a journal of South Jersey history and culture, and published or republished numerous titles of significance to South Jersey. For more information on his work, see stockton.edu/sjchc/.
WEBSITE
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Restoration and 18th-century British literature, Milton, history of the book, medieval Irish literature, grammar and punctuation, South Jersey studies
COURSES
LITT 2412 English Language and Grammar
LITT 2413 Punctuation: History and Craft
LITT 3106 Milton
LITT 3205 Shakespeare
LITT 3230 Restoration and 18th-Century British Literature
LITT 3260 Medieval Irish Literature
LITT 3616 Johnson and His Circle
LITT/HIST 3918 Editing Internship
LITT/HIST 3920 Public History Internship
LITT/COMM 3926 Oral History Internship
Nathan Long, Professor of Creative Writing
Nathan Long
Professor of Creative Writing
BIOGRAPHY
Nathan Long teaches creative writing, with a focus on fiction, as well as literature courses and courses for the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Minor. His interests are in Contemporary American and Global Literature, flash fiction, short story cycles, and QUILTBAG literature and culture. He has published stories and essays in over 100 anthologies and journals including The Sun, Tin House, Glimmer Train, Crab Orchard Review, and Story Quarterly.
His story “Reception Theory” won the 2017 international OWT Story Prize and “Arctic” won the 2015 international Open Road fiction award. Seven other stories have been finalists for Glimmer Train short story contests and three have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Long’s essay for NPR’s “This I Believe” series, about losing his dog Gracie, is available on line.
His collection of fifty flash fictions, The Origin of Doubt, was released Feb 2018 by Press 53. His short story collection manuscript, Two Stories, Some Tales, and a Yarn, was a finalist for the Hudson Book Manuscript Prize and a semifinalist for the Iowa Fiction Award.
Long remains active on the editorial boards of Philadelphia Stories and Interalia, and on the executive board of the Southern Humanities Council.
WEBSITE
https://blogs.stockton.edu/longn/
EDUCATION
MFA, Virginia Commonwealth University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Creative writing, fiction, personal essay, autobiography, contemporary literature, flash fiction, queer literature and theory, and women, gender, and sexuality studies.
COURSES
LITT 2237 Introduction to Creative Writing
LITT 3270 Creative Writing Workshop
LITT 3636 Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop
LITT 3637 Flash Fiction Workshop
GAH 3205 Queer Autobiographies
GAH 2681The History of Time
GAH 3217 Literature and Globalization
LITT 3242 Living American Poets
PUBLICATIONS
Nathan Alling Long’s stories and essays appear in over fifty literary journals, including Glimmer Train, The Sun, Tin House, Story Quarterly, Natural Bridge, Indiana Review, Salt Hill, Story South, Dos Passos Review, Coe Review,Monkey Bicycle, Philadelphia Stories, Silk Road, Sonora Review, Crab Orchard Review, Camera Obscura, Atticus Review, and Fiction Southeast.
His work has also appeared on National Public Radio, and in a number of anthologies, including Mother Knows, The Way We Work, Queer View Mirror Two, Stripped, Seek It: Writers and Artists Do Sleep, and FutureCycle Press Flash Fiction Anthology.
His stories have been seven time finalists for the Glimmer Train Very Short Story Award and have won him a Truman Capote Fellowship, a Mellon Foundation Fellowship, a Virginia Commission of the Arts grant, a Pushcart Prize nomination, and two Bread Loaf Conference working scholarships.
His scholarly work and reviews have appeared in Tin House, Southern Humanities Review, Interalia, and Panoptikum. A chapbook of his stories was published in 2005 by Popular Ink Press.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Executive board, Southern Humanities Council
Editorial board, Philadelphia Stories
Editorial board, Interalia, an International Journal of Queer Studies
Member, Associated Writing Programs (AWP)
Adam Miyashiro, Professor of Literature
Adam Miyashiro
Professor of Literature
BIOGRAPHY
Adam Miyashiro teaches courses on comparative medieval literature, medieval Mediterranean studies, postcolonial theory, and critical race theory and has a subspecialty in Asian and Pacific literatures. He has published articles and book reviews in Neophilologus, Notes and Queries, Journal of Law and Religion, Comparative Literature Studies, Literature Compass, and postmedieval.
Prof. Miyashiro has presented his work at national and international conferences such as the Modern Language Association, International Medieval Congresses in Leeds, UK and Kalamazoo, MI, and the American Comparative Literature Association.
He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Delaware Valley Medieval Association and is the Secretary of the Stockton Federation of Teachers (AFT Local #2275). He is an Advisory Board member of the journal Early Middle English and was a founding member of the Medievalists of Color Collective.
WEBSITE
http://wp.stockton.edu/miyashiro/
EDUCATION
Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Comparative medieval literature, Old and Middle English, Old French and Anglo-Norman literature, Mediterranean Studies, historiography, travel narratives, Arthurian literature, postcolonial theory
COURSES
LITT 2102 British Literature I
LITT 2123 Literary Research
LITT 2227 Arthurian Literature
LITT 3110 Chaucer
LITT 3261 Medieval English Literature
LITT 3262 The Medieval Romance
LITT 3263 Comparative Medieval Literature
LITT 3301 History of the English Language
LITT 4610 Senior Seminar
GAH 2201 Shakespeare’s Worlds
GAH 2334 Representing Race
GAH 3218 Medieval Cultural Encounters
PUBLICATIONS
Review of Allegoresis: Reading Canonical Literature East and West, by Zhang Longxi, Cornell University Press, 2005. Journal of Law and Religion 22.2 (2007): 619-623.
Review of Sodomy, Masculinity, and Law in Medieval Literature: France and England, 1050-1230, by William Burgwinkle, Cambridge University Press, 2004. Comparative Literature Studies 44.1-2 (2007): 211-214.
“Disease and Deceitin Béroul’s Roman de Tristan.” Neophilologus 89.4 (2005): 509-525.
“The Middle English Term Bipen in Castleford’s Chronicle.” Notes and Queries 50.1 (2003): 5-6.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Modern Language Association
American Comparative Literature Association
Medieval Academy, International Center for Medieval Art
Delaware Valley Medieval Association (Executive Council)
Spain-North Africa Project
Literature Adjunct Faculty
Ian August, Literature Adjunct Faculty
Cherita Harrell, Literature Adjunct Faculty
Special Opportunities
Study Abroad and Internships
The Literature program encourages its majors to pursue at least one term of study abroad or one term of internship (e.g., the Washington Internship). Of schools not located in the District of Columbia, Stockton has the largest Washington Internship program of any college or university in the country. The full-semester internship for 12 credits can be a useful tool for gaining career experience and contacts. A sample
of previous placements for majors in Literature includes internships with the United
Press International’s Capitol Hill Investigative Reporter, The National Journal, The Hill Rag, and D.C. Public Defender, as well as congressional and executive offices.
Scholarships, Clubs, and Honor Societies
The program maintains an active chapter of the international honor society Sigma Tau Delta, as well as the literature club, Idols of the Tribe. The program brings students, faculty, and alumni together for career workshops, meet-and-greet information gatherings, graduate school application workshops, and the annual LITT Bash, a large party to honor outstanding student work and celebrate the completion of the academic year. The Literature program also sponsors the Visiting Writers Series: public readings by poets, novelists, and non-fiction authors with local, national, and international reputations. Past visiting writers include Jeffrey Eugenides, Sharon Olds, Marilyn Nelson, Marie Howe, Tony Hoagland, Mark Strand, Alicia Ostriker, and Mark Doty. We also publish a student-run journal, Stockpot.
The program maintains an active chapter of the international honor society Sigma Tau
Delta, as well as the literature club, Idols of the Tribe. The program brings students,
faculty, and alumni together for career workshops, meet-and-greet information gatherings,
graduate school application workshops, and the annual LITT Bash, a large party to
honor outstanding student work and celebrate the completion of the academic year.
The Literature program also sponsors the Visiting Writers Series: public readings
by poets, novelists, and non-fiction authors with local, national, and international
reputations. Past visiting writers include Jeffrey Eugenides, Sharon Olds, Marilyn
Nelson, Marie Howe, Tony Hoagland, Mark Strand, Alicia Ostriker, and Mark Doty. We
also publish a student-run journal, Stockpot.
