Salameno School of American and International Studies (SSAIS)

Professor of Literature

Year Joined RCNJ: 1972

Contact Information:

• Phone: (201) 684-7566
• E-mail: pscheckn@ramapo.edu  
• Office: B-138
• Office Hours: TF  9:00-11:30 AM; W By Appt.
• Literature Major Website 

Education:

• B.A., Bard College
• M.A., Middlebury College
• Ph.D. Rutgers University

Courses Offered:

• College English
• Readings in the Humanities
• Major Author course (Melville, D.H. Lawrence, Philip Roth, and Sinclair Lewis)
• Various Senior Seminar courses (most recent: The Literature of War)

Teaching Interests:

• Dissertation on D. H. Lawrence

Research Interests:

• Cultural, Political, and Social Ramifications of Literature

Recent Publications:

• Roth's Falstaff: Transgressive Humor in Sabbath's Theater" in Playful and Serious: Philip Roth as a Comic Writer. Jay Halio, editor. An anthology of critical essays to be published by the University of Delaware Press, 2010.
• "Renegades in the Literature of War: From Homer to Heller." War, Literature and the Arts. Department of English and Fine Arts, US Air Force Academy. Publishing date, 2009.
• The Way We Work: Contemporary Writings from the American Workplace (a 302- page anthology of poetry, short stories, and narratives on work). Edited along with Mary C. Boyes: Nashville: Vanderbilt United Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8265-1609-1