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Jim Broderick has taught at NJCU for more than 25 years. His areas of interest include Irish Literature, Modern British Literature, conspiracy theories, and playwriting. He is the author of several books (more information at ), his work has appeared in HuffPost, Bookpleasures, The Collidescope, Quill, and NJ.com, and his plays have been produced in New York City and �鶹��Ժ.  

Ethan Bumas' doctorate is in English and American Literature and Comparative Literature, his MFAW in Fiction, and his BA in English and Urban Studies. He's had visiting assistant professorships at Indiana University—Bloomington, University of Missouri at Columbia, and Hangzhou University. At NJCU, he teaches classes in creative writing, composition, and sometimes literature of the Americas. He's written fiction, non-fiction, translation, hybrid, drama, and criticism. He used to win prizes for some of that (though not for hybrids). Now he mostly awards prizes to others.

Chris Cunningham earned a baccalaureate from Harvard University and an MA and PhD from UCLA. For more than 20 years he has been dedicated to serving NJCU students, teaching a wide variety of courses, primarily in world literature and multiethnic US literature. He has also served in many administrative roles, including involvement in the University Senate and a term as Interim Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Joshua Fausty is a Professor of English whose research and teaching interests focus on creative nonfiction, literary and critical theory, composition, pedagogy, and 19th- and 20th-century American literature.  He received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University. He serves as Academic Coordinator for the Title V Federal Grant “Learning Without Limits,” which enhances support for first-year Composition students through embedded tutoring at NJCU.

Audrey Fisch is a widely-recognized scholar whose current research is centered on first-generation college students. At NJCU, Fisch has served as Coordinator of Women’s Studies and of the Secondary English Education Program. She has taught a wide range of courses at the university and currently focuses on teaching English Composition.

Corey Frost is the current Department Chair. His interests have encompassed creative writing (he is the author of several books of fiction and performance texts), performance theory (his published scholarship is mostly on spoken word performance considered as a social project), writing studies (he has been closely involved in writing pedagogy and the writing curriculum at NJCU, and he is co-author of The Broadview Guide to Writing), and linguistics (his current book project is about grammar and usage). He regularly teaches composition and creative writing courses, as well as Grammar and Usage, Linguistics, and Science Fiction.

Alina Gharabegian has taught writing, poetry, and British literature, especially Romanticism and Victorian literature, and has written on Matthew Arnold, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, and the poetics of elegy. From 2014 to 2017 she served as Department Chair; in 2018-2019 she was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in Armenia. She is currently on personal leave.

Edvige Giunta is the author of Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors and coeditor of six anthologies, including The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture and Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, recipient of the 2023 Susan Koppelman Award for Best Anthology in Feminist Studies in American and Popular Culture. Her memoirs, essays, poems, and interviews appear in anthologies, journals, and magazines and have been published in Italian translation. At NJCU, she teaches memoir and a course on the Triangle fire as well as other literature and writing courses.

Barbara Hildner has been teaching at NJCU longer than any other professor in the university. She served as Department Chair from 1998 to 2002, and before that for 22 years she was Assistant Chair for Freshman English, creating the first AUR writing program at NJCU. She has served in various roles in the faculty and professional staff union (AFT Local 1839), including two terms as President.

Tan Lin is an acclaimed poet and artist and author of over 13 books whose work has also appeared in numerous journals, including Conjunctions, Artforum, Criticism, the New York Times Book Review, and Art in America. His book 7 Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking (2010) received the Association for American Studies Award for Poetry/Literature in 2010. He earned a PhD from Columbia University and has taught at the University of Virginia and Cal Arts in addition to NJCU.

Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz has been at NJCU since 2005 and served as Department Chair 2017-23. His teaching and research interests include: 17th- and 18th-century British and American literature; poetry; hip-hop; digital humanities; video game narrative; graphic novels; religion; and the literature of war, peace, genocide, and transitional justice. He has published poetry and articles on a variety of topics. He co-edited Global Economies, Cultural Currencies of the Eighteenth Century (AMS Press, 2012). He is a reader for New American Press, and a contributing editor of The Scriblerian. In 2021, he received a Bronx Recognizes Its Own grant from the Bronx Council on the Arts.

Ann E. Wallace is Director of the Writing Center and was the 2023-24 Poet Laureate of Jersey City. As a long-time survivor of ovarian cancer, a woman with multiple sclerosis, and one of the nation's first Long Covid patients, pain, disability, and disease—as well as hope and resilience—inspire and inform her work as a poet, memoirist, patient advocate, and scholar. She serves on the NIH RECOVER Initiative for Long Covid. Her new poetry collection is Days of Grace and Silence: A Chronicle of COVID’s Long Haul (2024); her work has appeared in Huffington Post, USA Today, and countless collections and journals (see AnnWallacePhD.com). Her Ph.D. is from the CUNY Graduate Center.

Caroline Wilkinson is an Associate Professor of English concentrating in Rhetoric and Composition. She teaches composition, Honors composition, and English major courses such as Writing Studies. Dr. Wilkinson serves as the Composition Coordinator as well as co-director of the Mellon Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon) Grant. She has published in Teaching in the Two-Year College, WPA: Writing Program Administration, and The Journal of Basic Writing. Her research interests concentrate on the pedagogy and professionalization of dual-enrollment courses and alternative assessment measures. 

Our part-time faculty have diverse talents and interests—many are authors, some teach in public schools, others are performers—but all are dedicated to our students. Here is a list of our current adjunct faculty and what they are teaching this semester.

Matt Reiter, ENGL 100.                

Linda Goldberg, ENGL 125 and 102.      

Sidney Fortner, ENGL 147.             

Usha Wadhwani, ENGL 100 (online).       

Luke Trusso, ENGL 317.                 

John Trigonis, ENGL 100.               

Navdeep Dhillon, ENGL 102 (online).         

Jessica Lugo, ENGL 100.              

Cathy Hanson, ENGL 101-esl and 102-esl.        

Dr. Jonathan Dewberry, ENGL 147.  

Cassandra Gorshkov, ENGL 102.      

Will Bailey, ENGL 100.                  

Dr. Michael Walters, ENGL 102 and 101.       

Neiha Bhandari, ENGL 101 and 200 (online). 

Scott Wordsman, ENGL 100.           

Nick Bellino, ENGL 147.              

Michael Montlack, ENGL 101.       

Olivera Stankovic, ENGL 102 and 147. 

Dr. Adrian Versteegh, ENGL 100.     

Justine Valinotti, ENGL 100.          

Katie Albany, ENGL 100 and 102-esl. 

Dr. Adam Cohen, ENGL 102 (online).                

Ica Sadagat, ENGL 235 (online).              

Alex Apuzzo, ENGL 209.                  

Laura Stuart, ENGL 100.               

Anna Fridlis, ENGL 100.               

Anthony D’Angelico, ENGL 100.     

Dr. Joseph Donica, ENGL 100.       

John Gurbisz, ENGL 100 and 147.       

Ariana Krieger, ENGL 100.             

Dr. Set Moon, ENGL 100.    

Michael Basile (started 1999, retired 2025) is an actor and scholar, whose work has largely been focused on Shakespeare and 20th Century American Drama. He considers his time at NJCU to be the most fulfilling of his entire life. The students whom he has had the privilege of teaching and the colleagues with whom he has been honored to work have enriched his life beyond measure.

Irma Maini (started 1999, retired 2023). Dr. Maini's main area of expertise is in multiethnic and world literature; she was the co-editor of Multiethnic Literature and Canon Debates (2006). She served as co-chair of the department from 2008 to 2011 and she was an excellent Fulbright mentor who helped many students get selected for exchanges around the world.

David Blackmore (started 1994, left 2023), in addition to being Professor of English, was co-director of the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies. A native of Pittsburgh, PA, he has returned to Pennsylvania and is teaching at Chatham University.  

Sonya Donaldson (started 2012, left 2022) is now an Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Colby College. While at NJCU she started the Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon), a national consortium of digital ethnic studies practitioners.

Laura Wadenpfuhl (started 1998, died 2022) was Department Chair from 2002 to 2005 and again from 2006 to 2007. Constantly active in the department, she served on most committees, and she was also a strong voice in the union, often writing for the newsletter AFTerthoughts. She died in her favorite city, New Orleans.

Hilary Englert (started 2003, died 2022) taught mostly British Literature; she was especially interested in the 18th century and in the history of the book. From 2008-2011 she was Department Co-Chair and she was Chair again from 2011 to 2014. She established and coordinated the First Year Experience program and was important to NJCU in many other roles, including being a mentor to countless students.

Dexter Marks (started 1992, retired 2022) earned a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and taught at NJCU for thirty years, specializing in composition and Shakespeare. He also served as Chair of the Department in the 1990s. In his retirement he writes novels.

Cynthia McCollie-Lewis (started 2001, retired 2022), whose baccalaureate, masters, and doctorate are in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, has written about AAVE through a sociolinguistic frame. At NJCU she taught mostly composition and linguistics courses, served on committees in and outside the department, and coordinated the Peer Tutoring program. 

Ellen Garvey (started 1994, retired 2019) taught at NJCU for 25 years, in both the English and Women's and Gender Studies programs, creating innovative courses such as Cut, Copy, Paste: Creative Approaches to Writing and Design. A widely published scholar, her best-known work is the award-winning Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance (2013).

Chris Wessman (started 1996, died 2019) loved to teach, loved poetry, loved music, and was beloved by his students and his colleagues. He was the soul of our regular "Poems We Love" event, and our resident cellist at Recognition Day.