Graduate Work

Rutgers University, Camden, NJ
 
Fall 2009
  • Studies in American Literature: Walt Whitman, Dr. Tyler Hofmann
  • Introduction to Graduate Literary Study, Dr. Singley
 
Spring 2009
  • African American Literature: The Novel After WWII, Dr. Keith Green
    • Final Paper:  "Broadening Baldwin’s Bridge: Reinventing the Blues Narrative in Another Country"
  • Post-Colonial Literature, Dr. Rafey Habib
    • Presentations:
      • Adibah Amin & "Night of Reckoning"
      • Jamaica Kincaid & "My Mother"
    • Paper: "Gender Roles and the Crisis of Identity"
      • literary focus: Adibah Amin's "Night of Reckoning" & Mahasweta Devi's "Breast-Giver"
 
Fall 2008
  • Language, Power, & Politics, Dr. Richard Epstein
    • Final Paper: "Ambition and Mutiny: How Language and Power Transform Julius Caesar"
  • Shakespeare, Dr. Chris Fitter
    • Final Paper: "Weeding out the Garden: Richard II and Othello"
          • carnival dynamics in Richard II & Othello
 
Spring 2008
  • Studies in American Literature: Three Centuries of Poetry, Dr. Tyler Hofmann
    • Final Paper:
          • African American Poetry of the Civil War
 
Fall 2007
  • Nature & Culture, Dr. Chris Fitter
    • Final Paper: Nature in Paradise Lost
 
Summer 2007
  • Studies in British Literature: Romantic Moderns, Dr. Barbarese
    • Final Paper: Wallace Stevens' Poetry