Salameno School of American and International Studies (SSAIS)

Professor of Literature

Year Joined RCNJ: 1996

Contact Information:

• Phone: (201) 684-7278
• E-mail: liwillia@ramapo.edu 
• Office: B-139
• Office Hours: MR 7:45-8:00 a.m., 1:30-2:45 p.m.; W by Appt.
• Literature Major Website 

Education:

• B.A., University of Massachusetts
• M.A., Ph.D., C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center

Courses Offered:

• College English
• Readings in Poetry
• Major Authors: The Novels of Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf
• Modernism
• Creative Non-Fiction
   
• Survey of American Poetry

Teaching Interests:

• Twentieth Century American and British Writers.
   

Research Interests:

• Women writers, particularly Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf

Recent Publications:

• Mount Fuji” and “April in Japan” (Poems), Sunrise from Blue Thunder, Japan’s Earthquake-Tsunami, March 2011, an A Pirene Fountain Anthology, Ed. Ami Kaye, Pirene Fountain Publishing, December 2011
• “For Sam,” Cradle Songs: An Anthology of Poems About Motherhood., Quill and Parchment Press,  May 2012
• “Sestina,” and “Uterus” translated into French, Dans Le Ventre Des Femmes  (The Image of Women), Ed, Maia Brami, BSC Publishing, France, March 2012 
• "Poem", Washington Square, (Summer/Fall) Vol. 10, 2010
• Poem, Mamas and Papas, Eds., Masek and Mayhew. San Diego: City Works Press, 2010
• "Birth" (Poem), in The Mom Egg: Lessons, Vol. 8 2010 print edition