PATRICIA ARD

Associate Professor of Literature
B.A., Douglass College;
J.D., Seton Hall University School of Law;
Ph.D., Rutgers University

Year Joined RCNJ: 1997

Courses Offered:

• College English; Readings in the Humanities; Survey of British Literature; Children's Literature; Introduction to Literature; American Photography and American Visual Culture.

Teaching Interest:

• Composition pedagogy; Nineteenth Century American and British culture; visual culture; women writers; popular culture

Research Interest:

• Generally in American literature and culture, especially that of the nineteenth century, the 1940s and 1950s, and present day.

Recent Publications:

• The Jews of New Jersey: A Pictorial History, Rutgers University Press, 2002