PATRICIA M. ARD

Professor of Literature
B.A., Douglass College; Rutgers University
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 II; Children's and Young Adult Literature; Introduction to Literature; American Photography and American Visual Culture. Majors Authors: Jane Austen; Senior Seminar: American Literature and Law

Teaching Interest:

• Nineteenth Century American and British literature; composition; visual culture; women writers; popular culture

Research Interest:

• Generally in American and British literature and culture, and material culture.

Recent Publications:

• The Jews of New Jersey: A Pictorial History, Rutgers University Press, 2002 
• "Garbage in the Garden State: A Trash Museum Confronts New Jersey's Image." The Public Historian (2005)
• "Reading Into Things: Literature Material Culture." The International Journal of the Book (2009)