monica pelaez

Assistant Professor of Literature

B.A. Princeton University, English, 1997; M.A. Brown University, English, 2001; Ph.D. Brown University, English, 2006

Year Joined RCNJ: 2006

Courses Offered:

• American Poetry; American Romanticism; Readings in Poetry

Teaching Interest:

• Nineteenth-century American literature; poetics; sentimentalism; Emily Dickinson; Edgar Allan Poe; British Victorian poetry

Research Interest:

• Sentimental movement that dominated popular literature in the United States in the nineteenth century, as well as idiosyncratic writers like Poe and Dickinson.

 Recent Publications:

• "Sentiment and Experiment: Poe, Dickinson, and the Culture of Death in Nineteenth-Century America." Forthcoming publication: "Reversing the Irreversible: Dickinson and the Sentimental Culture of Death," _Essays in Culture and Irreversibility_ (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007).