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Appointment of Aaron Hostetter
The Department of English is pleased to announce the appointment of Aaron Hostetter as Assistant Professor of English, effective Fall 2011. Professor Hostetter received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in January, 2011, writing his dissertation on The Politics of Eating and Cooking in Medieval English Romance.  He has presented numerous papers at conferences and colloquia, and he has an essay forthcoming in the Journal of English and Germanic Philology, among other publications.  He was named a winner of the Princeton Graduate Alumni Teaching Award in 2009. 

2010-11 Student Awards Announced
The Department of English is pleased to announce awards made to graduate and undergraduate students at the Arts and Sciences Honors Convocation on May 12. Click here for a complete listing.

Appointment of Paul Lisicky as "New Voice"
The Department of English is pleased to announce the appointment of Paul Lisicky as the New Voices professor in Creative Writing for 2011-12.  Professor Lisicky earned a B.A. and an M.A. at Rutgers Camden, and he received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.  He is the author of three books, including the 1999 novel Lawnboy, Famous Builder (nonfiction, 2002), and The Burning House (novel, 2011),  and he has published numerous shorter works in anthologies and periodicals.  Among the department's five full-time faculty members in Creative Writing, the New Voices position is filled annually.  Professor Lisicky's predecessor was Adam Mansbach, who taught here from 2009 to 2011. 

Appointment of Patrick Rosal
The Department of English is pleased to announce the appointment of Patrick Rosal as Assistant Professor of English, effective Fall 2011. Professor Rosal earned his MFA in Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College, and he is author of three volumes of poetry: My American Kundiman (2006), Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive (2003), and Uncommon Denominators (2000), among other works. In addition to offering courses for our undergraduates, Professor Rosal will teach in our MFA program and in conjunction with the Childhood Studies program.

Publication of Story Quarterly 44
The Department of English is pleased to announce, on behalf of our MFA Program, the publication of volume 44 of Story Quarterly magazine, edited by J. T. Barbarese. It features the work of more than two dozen writers of fiction along with an excerpt from a forthcoming memoir by Gerald Stern. Established as an independent quarterly in 1975, Story Quarterly quickly developed a reputation as an important venue for the publication of fiction by both established and emergent writers. This is the second print volume to appear at Rutgers. See Department Projects on this site for a link to the magazine.