Fawzia Afzal-Khan
Professor, Director of Women and Gender Studies and University Distinguished Scholar 09-10
PhD, MA, Tufts; University, B.A., Punjab University (India)

Courses. Undergraduate: World Literature (Coming of Age and Tradition and Challenge); Images of Muslim Women; Women Prose Writers; Feminist Theory; Pursuits of English; Creative Non-Fiction (Memoir) Graduate: Seminar in Literary Theory; Introduction to Postcolonial Theory and Literature

Dickson Hall 121 -- khanf@mail.montclair.edu

Lee Behlman
Assistant Professor
PhD, MA, University of Michigan; B.A., University of Virginia

Research/Interests. Victorian poetry and prose; nineteenth classicism; gender studies and the history of sexuality; Victorian science; the Bible as literature; Jewish studies; honors education. Recent publications include: “”The Pencilling Mamma”: Public Motherhood in Alice Meynell’s Essays on Children,” in Mothers Who Deliver: Feminist Interventions in Public and Interpersonal Discourse (SUNY, 2009); “The Sentinel of Pompeii: An Exemplum for the Nineteenth Century,” in Victoria Coates and Jon Seydl, ed. Antiquity Recovered: The Legacy of Pompeii and Herculaneum (Getty Trust, 2007); “Burning, Burial, and the Critique of Stoicism in Pater’s Marius the Epicurean” Nineteenth-Century Prose (2004); and “”The Escapist”: Fantasy, Folklore, and the Pleasures of the Comic Book in Recent Jewish-American Holocaust Fiction,” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies (2004).

Courses. Undergraduate: Victorian Poetry and Prose Victorian Novel; Women Poets; Myth and Literature; Pursuits of English; the Bible as Literature; College Writing I and II; Honors Great Books I.  Graduate: Victorian Poetry; Ancient Epic; Hebrew Bible/Old Testament as Literature.

Dickson Hall 410 -- behlmanl@mail.montclair.edu

Tom Benediktsson
Professor
PhD, University of Washington; BA, Trinity University

Research/Interests. American poetry; American fiction, creative writing; poetry. Author of a book on the San Francisco poet George Sterling and of articles on various topics in contemporary literature and film.  Over the years his poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines and small presses.

Courses. Art of Poetry; Creative Writing; American Poetry to 1940; American Poetry Since 1940; Contemporary Poetry; American Literary Realism; Modern American Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; Honors Seminar in Contemporary Civilization.

Dickson Hall 458 -- benediktssont@mail.montclair.edu

Daniel Bronson
Professor and English Department Chair
PhD, University of Pennsylvania; MA, University of Pennsylvania; AB, Harvard College

Research/Interests. American, Modern British, Irish and Canadian literatures; journalism (especially editing and magazine journalism); American studies

Courses. American Literary Realism; Modern American Literature; Contemporary American Literature; Modern British Literature; Contemporary British Literature; The Irish Revival; Modern Canadian Literature; Editing; Baseball and Literature; Pursuits of English.

Dickson Hall 468 -- bronsond@mail.montclair.edu

Janet Cutler
Professor and Film Minor Coordinator
PhD, University of Illinois, 1977; BA, University of Chicago, 1970

Research/Interests. Film studies with an emphasis on American independent film (documentary and avant-garde; African American cinema; films on and about artists). Book: Struggles for Representation: African American Documentary Film and Video, co-edited with Phyllis Klotman, Indiana University Press, 2000. Recent publications: “Su Friedrich: Rewriting the Rules,” a chapter in Women’s Experimental Cinema, edited by Robin Blaetz, Duke University Press, 2007; “Don’t Say Mammy: Camille Billops’s Meditations on Motherhood,” a chapter in Motherhood Misconceived, co-edited by Heather Addison, Mary Kate Goodwin-Kelly, and Elaine Roth, SUNY Press, forthcoming in 2009. Currently writing “The L.A. Rebellion: Black Independent Film of the 1970s,” a chapter in Blackwell’s History of American Film, forthcoming in 2010.

Courses. Undergraduate: Introduction to Film; Major Film Genres; Major Film Directors; World Film; Film Comedy; Three Directors; Pursuits of English (with James Nash). Graduate: World Film: Reflexive Cinema.

Dickson Hall 456 -- cutlerj@mail.montclair.edu

Monika Elbert
Professor, University Distinguished Scholar and Interim Graduate Advisor
PhD (English) and MA (German), Rutgers, 1987; MA, Rutgers, 1981; BA, Douglass College/Rutgers, 1978

Research/Interests. 19th century women writers; American Romanticism, 19th century American children’s literature; American Gothic. Recent books include Enterprising Youth: Social Values and Acculturation in 19th Century American Children’s Literature (Routledge, 1008, ed., intro. and my essay on Alcott included, and Culinary Aesthetics and Practices in 19th Century American Literature (forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, co-ed. and co-intro., and my essay on Hawthorne, food, and nationalism). Recent essays on Hawthorne, Alcott, Stowe, Jewett, and Poe. Editor of Nathaniel Hawthorne Review

Courses. American Renaissance; Women Prose Writers, American Literary Realism; Creative Nonfiction; American Gothic; 19th Century American Women Writers; American Short Story

Dickson Hall 354 -- elbertm@mail.montclair.edu

Grover Furr
Associate Professor
PhD, Princeton University, 1978; BA, McGill University, 1965

Research/Interests. Marxism; history of the USSR and the Communist Movement; social and political protest; Medieval literature.

Courses. Medieval Literature; World Literature; History of Journalism in America; Social Protest Literature; Vietnam War and American Culture.

Dickson Hall 325 -- furrg@mail.montclair.edu

David Galef
Professor
PhD, Columbia University,1989; MA, Columbia University,1984; BA, Princeton University,1981

Research/Interests. Creative writing and modern British literature. Fourteen books, including three novels, two short story collections, two poetry collections, two Japanese translations, two children’s books, literary criticism, and two anthologies. Recent publications include the novel How to Cope with Suburban Stress, the edited fiction anthology 20 over 40, the poetry collection Flaws, and the edited anthology Second Thoughts: A Focus on Rereading. Additionally, essays on Joyce, Woolf, Forster, Behan, Nabokov, and others in places ranging from Twentieth Century Literature to The Columbia History of the British Novel.

Courses. Creative writing workshops on all levels; Topics in British Modernism; The Contemporary British Novel; British Literature II Survey; Science Fiction

Dickson Hall 409 -- galefd@mail.montclair.edu

Jonathan Greenberg
Associate Professor
PhD, Princeton University, 2002; AB, Harvard University, 1990

Research/Interests. Modernism; 20th century literature in general; literary theory. Currently completing a book about comedy and satire in modernism; starting a project about Darwin’s influence on the literature and culture of the 20th century. Recently published articles on Evelyn Waugh (Modernist Cultures); Chinua Achebe (Contemporary Literature); Ian McEwan (Twentieth-Century Literature).

Courses. Modern British Fiction; Postwar British Fiction: James Joyce; Modern European Novel; Art of Poetry; English Literature ii:1660-present; Pursuits of English; African/Aisan/Caribbean Literature in English.

Dickson Hall 353 -- greenbergj@mail.montclair.edu -- On Sabbatical 09-10

Ron Hollander
Associate Professor
MA, Rutgers-Newark, 1991; BA, Brandeis University 1963

Research/Interests. The practical, hands-on craft of journalism writing and editing, both newspapers and magazines, but also with reference to TV reporting.  Visual journalism including photography and videography.  Creative non-fiction ranging from memoir to critical analysis.  The Holocaust with particular reference to journalistic coverage and propaganda.

Courses. Intellectual Prose; News Reporting; Advanced News Reporting; Feature Writing; Magazine Journalism; Editing; Interpretive Journalism; Creative Non-Fiction; The Holocaust and the Press.

Dickson Hall 413 -- hollanderr@mail.montclair.edu

Emily Isaacs
Associate Professor and Director of First-Year Writing
PhD, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2006; BA Colby College 1988

Research/Interests. Composition, pedagogy, writing program administration. “General Education Writing: Is there a Place for Literature?” in Pedagogy, and “Research and Writing” in Promise or Peril in Writing Program Administration (Parlor Press). Forthcoming articles on new writing center practices in Writing Center Journal and a book collection (Hampton Press). Public Works: Student Writing as Public Text (Boynton/Cook), co-edited with Jackson (2001).

Courses. Undergraduate: College Writing I: Intellectual Prose, College Writing II: Writing and Literary Study, Introduction to Writing, Teaching Writing Grades 6-12, Autobiography; Graduate: Teaching Writing, Approaches to Writing Assessment, Research in Writing Studies.

Dickson Hall 460 -- isaacse@mail.montclair.edu -- Office Hours Fall 09 Wed. 9 - 10; 11-12.

Rita D. Jacobs
Professor and English Cooperative Education Coordinator
PhD, University of Pennsylvania; MA, University of Pennsylvania; BA, Queens College, CUNY

Research/Interests. Contemporary American Fiction, American Drama, Tony Kushner, The Holocaust in American Fiction, Magazine Journalism and Journal Writing. NJCH Scholar Facilitator and Seminar Leader in Literature and Medicine, 2008-9. Publications include: The Way In: Journal Writing for Self-Discovery;Tommy: The Musical; A Day in the Life of America; “Eternal Noise: Confessions of an American Mediaphile One Year After September 11; biannual book reviews for World Literature Today on contemporary fiction; numerous magazine articles.

Courses. Undergraduate: Contemporary American Fiction; Modern American Fiction; American Drama; The Holocaust in American Fiction; Creative Non-Fiction; Magazine Journalism. Graduate: American Drama; Recent American Drama; The Personal Essay; The Holocaust in American Fiction.

Dickson Hall 456 -- jacobsr@mail.montclair.edu

Melinda Knight
Professor and Director of the Center for Writing Excellence
PhD, New York University 1992; MA,. New York University 1979; BA ,Cornell University, 1973

Research/Interests. Rhetorical Theory and Practice, Writing Centers, Writing in the Disciplines, Computers and Composition, American Cultural Studies. Recent publications include “Understanding the Gap between High School and College Writing” (co-authored with Cheryl Beil in Assessment Update) and “Hybrid Writing Courses: Combining the Best of Online and Classroom Learning.” Writers Writing, co-authored with Brannon and Neverow, was published by Boynton/Cook in 1982 and is still in print. Recent grants include sponsored awards from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board.  

Courses. Undergraduate: College Writing I: Intellectual Prose; Theory and Practice of Individualized Instruction; Graduate: Writing Center Theory and Practice' Teaching Writing Through Technology; Teaching Writing Through Literature.

Dickson Hall 461 -- knightm@mail.montclair.edu

Sharon Lewis
Assistant Professor
PhD, Rutgers University; MA, Rutgers-Camden; BA, Rutgers College

Research/Interests. African American women writers, in particular, the representations of the intersection of race, class and gender in African American women’s fiction; teaching race/racism across ethnicity and race; writing poetry.

Courses. Undergraduate: Black Writers: US; Women Prose Writers; Pursuits of English; Introduction to Writing; College Writing I: Intellectual Prose; College Writing II: Writing and Literary Study; Creative Writing Non-Fiction; Advanced Expository Writing; Genderal Education National Issues. Graduate: Teaching Literature; African American Women Writers

Dickson Hall 321 -- lewiss@mail.montclair.edu

Naomi Conn Liebler
Professor and University Distinguished Scholar

PhD, The State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1976; MA, The City College of New York, CUNY,1967; BA with Honors in English, 1966

Research/Interests. Shakespeare, Early Modern English Drama, World Drama, Literary Theory, Tragedy, Renaissance Literature, Literature and Anthropology, Literature of Age and Aging. Selected Works: Early Modern Prose Fiction: The Politics of Reading (Routledge 2007), The Female Tragic Hero in Renaissance English Drama (Palgrave, 2002), Tragedy: A Critical Reader, co-ed. with J. Drakakis (Longmans, 1998), Shakespeare’s Festive Tragedy: The Ritual Foundations of Genre (Routledge, 1995).  Current research: Shakespeare’s Geezers—Negotiations of Old Age in Shakespeare’s Plays and Poems.

Courses. Graduate: Shakespeare (all genres); Elizabethan/Jacobean Drama; Seminar in Literary Theory/Theories of Tragedy; Undergraduate: Shakespeare (all genres); Shakespeare on Film; English Drama Beginnings to 1642; Art of Drama; College Writing I and II; Honors Program: Great Books II.

Dickson Hall 462 -- lieblern@mail.montclair.edu

Johnny Lorenz
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 2000

Research/Interests. Poetry, Cultural Studies, Poetry in Translation, Brazilian Literature, Creative Writing.  Prof. Lorenz' scholarship has appeared in journals such as Interventions and Brasil/Brazil, as well as in anthologies such as Asian American Literature in the International Context and Gloria Naylor.  His translations of Brazilian literary work have been published in Bomb, Metamorphoses and Washington Square, among other journals.  He has published poems in Rattapallax and Massachusetts Review, as well as in anthologies such as Luso-American Literature (forthcoming). In 2003, he was awarded a Fulbright grant to travel to Brazil and conduct research on the poetry of Mario Quintana. 

Courses. Undergraduate: World Literature; Contemporary Poetry; American Poetry; Banned Poets; Amerindian Themes; Writing: Poetry. Graduate: Latin American Literature

Dickson Hall 359 -- lorenzj@mail.montclair.edu -- Office Hours Fall 09

Alex Lykidis
Assistant Professor
PhD University of Southern California; MFA. Boston University; BS, University of Pennsylvania

Research Interests. Film studies with an emphasis on contemporary European cinema, non-mainstream cinema (avant-garde, Third Cinema, minority cinema) and political theory. Publications: "Multicultural Encounters in Haneke’s French-language Cinema" in Michael Haneke: A Cinema of Provocation,edited by Roy Grundmann, forthcoming from Blackwell Publishing; "Minority and Immigrant Representation in Recent European Cinema" in Spectator 29:1 (Spring 2009); SparkNotes Film Studies Guide

Courses. Introduction to Film; Women and Gender in Cinema

Dickson Hall 355 -- lykidisa@mail.montclair.edu

Patricia A. Matthew
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2003; MA, Northwestern State University; BA, Centenary College of Louisiana

Research/Interests. Romantic-era fiction, history of the novel, mind-body theories, Jane Austen adaptations. Select Publications: “Corporeal Lessons and Genre Shifts in Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda” (Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies),”Biography and Mary Wollstonecraft in Adeline Mowbray and Valperga” (Women’s Writing), and Pedagogy. Co-editor “Novel Prospects—Teaching Romantic-Era Fiction” for Romantic Pedagogy Commons.  Forthcoming/In progress: essay on abolition for Blackwell Encyclopedia of Romanticism, book manuscript In Sickness and in Health: Illness, Citizenship, and Romantic Era Fiction.

Courses. Undergraduate:  Literature in the Age of Revolution; The Novel to 1900; Sensibility to Romanticism; The Art of Female Rebellion.  Graduate: Research Methods; History of the Novel; Jane Austen Seminar; The Mind, Body, and Soul in Nineteenth-Century British Literature.

Dickson Hall 357 -- matthewp@mail.montclair.edu

Research/Interests. Modern British and Irish Poetry;  Irish Studies; Irish Revival;  Nation and Gender in Modern Irish Writing; Irish Film; Contemporary Irish Poetry;  Modern Irish Drama;  Yeats, Wilde, Shaw, Stevie Smith

Courses. Irish Revival; Irish Film; Irish Poetry after Yeats

Dickson Hall 407 -- mcdiarmidl@mail.montclair.edu

Alyce Sands Miller
Professor
MA and PhD, Pennsylvania State University; BA, Hunter College,

Research/Interests. Mainly American literature: 17th-century Puritan poetry, cultural history; American Renaissance literature, especially Melville; race and class in texts; influence of magazines like the Knickerbocker on the reading public; American realism.

Courses. Early American Literature; American Renaissance; American Realism (all on both the undergraduate and graduate levels); Methods of Research (graduate course); Images of Women in American Literature; Creative Non-Fiction; student teacher mentoring; Women's Worlds (for the Women's and Gender Studies program). 

Dickson Hall 454 -- millera@mail.montclair.edu -- On Leave for Fall 2009

James Nash
Professor
MA and PhD., University of Virginia; BA, La Salle University

Research and Teaching Interests. British Literature, Restoration and 18th-Century Literature, Pedagogy (Writing and Literature

Courses. First-Year Writing Courses, Creative Nonfiction, The Pursuits of English, English Literature Survey (I & II), Art of Poetry, Augustan Age

Dickson Hall 465 -- nashj@mail.montclair.edu

Laura Nicosia
Assistant Professor, Teacher Education Advisor
PhD, NYU, 2003; MA, Montclair State College, 1992; BA, Saint Peter’s College 1982

Research/Interests. Modern/Contemporary American fiction and poetry, short story cycles, science fiction, speculative fiction, young adult & children’s literatures, educational applications for social networking media, using Web 2.0 technologies to improve pedagogy and to promote learning. Most recent literary publications examine the narrative constructs of Louis Sachar, Philip Roth, John Dufresne and Gloria Naylor. Nicosia has a book chapter, “Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place: Evolution of a Short Story Cycle,” included in Narratives of Community: Women’s Short Story Sequences and a forthcoming pedagogical chapter, “Virtual Constructivism:  Avatars in Action,” included in Information Technology and Constructivism in Higher Education: Progressive Learning Frameworks.

Courses. Undergraduate: College Writing II: Modern American Fiction; Modern American Poetry; Science Fiction; Speculative Fiction/Fantasy; Pursuits of English; Honors Great Books I; Methods of Teaching English; Graduate: Teaching Literature; Methods of Teaching English

Dickson Hall 464 -- nicosiala@mail.montclair.edu

Wendy C. Nielsen
Assistant Professor
PhD , UC Davis, Comparative Literature; Latinum, Georg August Univ., Göttingen; BA, UC San Diego, Literature/German

Research and teaching interests. German, French, and British literature (18th century to 1945); European Romantic drama; women warriors; women writers; and the French Revolution. Dr. Nielsen is a specialist in the writer Olympe de Gouges, and has published on Rousseau, Inchbald, Charlotte Corday, P. B. Shelley, Gide, Boadicea, and the pedagogy of teaching drama.

Courses. Modern Drama: Ibsen to O’Neill (ENLT 375), Modern European Novel (ENLT 376), Science Fiction (ENLT 378) , World Literature: Coming of Age (ENLT 206), Art of Drama (ENGL 263), Ibsen, Strindberg, and Shaw (ENLT 565), The Romantic Movement (ENLT 536), and Seminar in Literary Research: Methods (ENGL 605)

Dickson Hall 352 -- nielsenw@mail.montclair.edu

Jessica Restaino
Assistant Professor
PhD, Temple University, 2005; BA, Franklin and Marshall

Research/Interests. Writing pedagogy and rhetorical theory. Recent publicationsin Reflections: A Journal of Writing, Community Literacy, and Service-Learning, Academic Exchange Quarterly, Thirdspace, and Literary Mama. Currently working on a book project that studies the preparation of new writing teachers through the lens of Arendt’s political thought.

Courses. Undergraduate: Teaching Writing Grades 6-12, College Writing I: Intellectual Prose, Methods of English, Pursuits of English; Graduate: Teaching Writing and the Basic Writer, Research in Writing Studies, Rhetorical Theories and the Teaching of Writing

Dickson Hall 463 -- restainoj@mail.montclair.edu

Lawrence Schwartz
Professor and Coordinator of Department Advising
PhD, Rutgers University, 1977; MA, Stanford University,1969; BS, NJIT, 1968

Research/Interests. 19th and 20th Century American Literature with focus on intersections between literature and cultural and social history including Black writers, protest literature, and canonical writers.  Recent publications on Faulkner, Morrison, and Philip Roth.  Also engaged with issues of curriculum, technology, pedagogy, and hiring practices in the profession. 

Courses. Black Writers Survey, American Literary Realism, Modern American Fiction, Contemporary American Fiction, College Writing I: Intellectual Prose, College Writing II: Writing and Literary Study, Introduction to Writing, Creative Nonfiction

Dickson Hall 459 -- schwartzl@mail.montclair.edu

Art Simon
Associate Professor
MA and PhD, New York University, 1993; BA, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1982

Research/Interests. History of American film, Jewish-American cultural history and the literature of the American left.  Currently co-editing Blackwell's History of American Film, a forthcoming four-volume history of American cinema. Recent essay, "The House I Live In: Albert Maltz and the Fight Against Anti-Semitism" is in "Un-American" Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era (Rutgers UP, 2007). Special Features commentary, in collaboration with Robert Sklar, for the DVD of Kid Galahad (part of the Warners Gangsters 4 set), released in 2009. Author of Dangerous Knowledge: The JFK Assassination in Art and Film (Temple UP, 1993). 

Courses. History of American FIlm I and II, Major Film Directors, World Film, Hollywood and the Blacklist, Introduction to Film, The Studio System, Film Comedy

Dickson Hall 360 -- simona@mail.montclair.edu

Keith Slocum
Professor and Deputy Department Chair
PhD, M.A., University of Pennsylvania; BA, Knox College

Research/Interests. The English Workshop (Glencoe/McGraw-Hill), 2003; Business English(Glencoe/McGraw-Hill), 1993; Business Spelling and Word Power, with Rosemarie McCauley (Glencoe/McGraw-Hill), 2001. Current research interests include the revision process between genres in selected works by Arthur Miller.
Courses. Shakespeare, Renaissance Literature, American Drama, Art of Drama, Art of Fiction

Dickson Hall 457 -- slocumk@mail.montclair.edu

Susan B. A. Somers-Willett
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (Literature), M.A. (Creative Writing), The University of Texas-Austin; A.B., Duke University

Research/Interests. Creative Writing; 20th C. and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics; African American Studies; Women’s Studies; Performance and Cultural Studies; Film. Author of two books of poetry, Quiver and Roam, and a book of criticism, The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry: Race, Identity, and the Performance of Popular Verse in America. An award-winning poet and scholar, she was the first poet-reporter featured by IN VERSE, a collaboration between poets, photographers, and radio producers to create a new model of storytelling in journalism funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Visit her website at www.susansw.com.

Courses. Introduction to Creative Writing; Poetry Writing: Form and Technique; Advanced Poetry Writing; Contemporary Poetry, Poetics, and Publics; African American Poetry and Poetics; Poetry and Performance.

Dickson Hall 316 – somerswilles@mail.montclair.edu

Gregory L. Waters
Professor and Director, University Honors Program
PhD, Rutgers University 1974; MA, Rutgers University 1972; BA,. Georgetown University 1969;

Research/Interests. American and English literature; drama; developmental writing, composition and rhetoric; literature and medicine; cultural policy studies.
Written on subjects ranging from Elizabethan fiction to literacy programs in Great Britain, Blake and Rossetti, Robert Frost, Conrad Aiken's literary criticism, telecommunications and its impact on higher education in such journals as English Record, Concerning Poetry, The Midwest Quarterly, ADE Bulletin, Journal of Narrative Technique, Forum for Liberal Education and College Board Review. After twenty years of work in university administration, my  research interests have turned to issues related to government policy and culture, and the role of the public humanist. Currently serve as chairman of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities and teach off campus in institutes and seminars sponsored by NEH's literature and medicine program.   

Courses. Literature of the American Renaissance; Modern American Fiction; American Drama; The Art of Drama; Introduction to Writing; The Sixties: An Interdisciplinary Course.

College Hall 121 -- watersg@mail.montclair.edu

Robert Whitney
Assistant Professor
PhD, NYU; M.Div, Chicago Theological Seminary; BA, University of New Hampshire

Dickson 358 -- WhitneyR@mail.montclair.eduu -- Office Hours Fall 09

Research/Interests. Composition and Rhetoric; Teacher Education.

Courses. Undergraduate: Pursuits of English; Grammars of English; Advanced Expository Prose, College Writing I: Intellectual Prose. Graduate: Rhetorical Theories.

Dickson Hall 358 -- whitneyr@mail.montclair.edu

English Department Staff

Rashida Batte-Bowden
Department Administrator
MA, Montclair State University, 2009
BA, Montclair State University

Dickson Hall 468 -- batter@mail.montclair.edu

Phyllis Brooks
Department Secretary

Dickson Hall 468 -- brooksp@mail.montclair.edu