Salameno School of American and International Studies (SSAIS)

Professor of Literature

Year Joined RCNJ: 1997

Contact Information:

• Phone: (201) 684-7280
• E-mail: pard@ramapo.edu 
• Office: B-137
• Office Hours: MR 1:00-3:00 PM
• Literature Major Website 

Education:

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

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 Interests:

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

Research Interests:

• 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)