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Composition 101

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Faculty Bios

Peter Bryant is completing his MA in English at Rutgers-Camden and has previous taught Composition and Basic Writing at Camden County College. His interests include Renaissance Literature, Graphic Novels, and Popular Culture. He is particularly interested in the way that class, gender, race, and politics are reflected and hidden in cultural texts; and in the way that we classify artistic mediums into "high" and "low" categories and how those categories intersect and communicate. He developed his first-year seminar courses while writing scholarship about Maus and theorizing the complexity of communication in the graphic novel. He holds an undergraduate degree in English from The George Washington University.   

Jason Cash, a graduate of the English program ofBridgewater College in Virginia with a minor in Theatre, is pursuing his MA at Rutgers-Camden. In addition to three years working for the Bridgewater College Writing Center, he was also actively involved with campus life as a Resident Advisor and later as a Resident Director, where he developed academic study programs in the Holocaust. His literary interests include, but are not limited to, drama, Irish literature, medieval literature, modernism, and Arthuriana.  In addition to the more conventional dimensions of literary discourse, Jason is a student of both film and television.  Regarding the former, he engaged in an independent study as an undergraduate examining reality in musical film.  As for the latter, he is in the preliminary stages of a structural study
of contemporary television drama.

Kate Delany has been teaching writing courses at Rutgers-Camden since fall 2002. She has completed extensive graduate work in English and creative writing at both Temple University and Rutgers, where she earned her MA in English in 2004. During her master’s program she won the Sanderson Award for best graduate essay, awarded for her paper, “Women’s Composition.” She specializes in Romantic, Victorian, women’s, and autobiographical literature, as well as the teaching of writing. A native of Maple Shade, NJ, she holds in addition to her MA in English a BA in English and a BA in Art History from Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, PA. In addition to teaching, she is a poet and fiction writer and published a first book of poetry, Reading Darwin, in 2006 through Poets Corner Press.

Candice Kaup has been teaching composition at Rutgers-Camden since September 2006, where she is completing her graduate degree in English.  She previously worked at New York University, where she completed her B.A. in humanities and creative writing.  Her academic interests are 20th and 21st century American literature and poetry, Rhetoric and Composition, and Popular Culture.  These interests intersect in her classroom as she combines contemporary literature, popular culture topics, and evolving composition strategies as a way to keep her students interested in reading and writing while their technical skills progress.  She has recently presented papers on using technology in the composition classroom and integrating contemporary and popular culture literature with the classics.  Her current project is an analysis of the female characters in the Harry Potter series, which she has been invited to present at the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association’s annual conference in November 2007.  Additionally, she is co-chair of the Ralph Bergen Allen prize committee for the 2007-2008 academic year.


Erica Maxwell joins Rutgers-Camden’s English department as an MFA candidate in creative writing. She has a special interest in youth fiction. She earned her BA in English from Temple University. Before coming to Rutgers-Camden, she had worked as a cook, a counselor, a copy-editor, and an Overnight Front Desk Hotel Slave.

Mike Miller set out to earn a law degree and found himself, after one 17th century literary course, devoted to John Milton and post-Civil War England. He is currently completing his graduate degree in English at Rutgers-Camden. For two years he has taught literature and media-based composition skills while focusing on popular culture, introductory literary theory, Victorian fiction and poetry, and of course, John Milton. As an undergraduate, he received the The John C. Wentz Memorial Prize for his essay titled, "Is Macheath the Object of John Gay's Desire?" He also won the Gloria H. Moffatt Scholarship Award for demonstrated commitment to public or community service. This year he won James L. Sanderson Graduate Award for his essay “"Vittoria Wears Blue Velvet: A Cross Discipline Study of John Webster and David Lynch." After teaching Composition, Shakespeare, and Literatures in English at Rutgers and Rowan this year, he plans to pursue a doctorate in Early Modern literary studies.

David Solomon is a graduate of Rutgers University-Camden and began teaching composition in 2006.  In addition to teaching, he has several years of Writing Center experience and believes in an individualized approach to writing instruction both in and out of the classroom. As an undergraduate, he won the Rutgers Alumni Association Writing Award for Achievement in Creative Writing. He is a 24 fan, comic book collector and self-admitted Star Wars geek.  His interest in heroes stems from a childhood fascination with  mythology and Spider-Man cartoons.  As an area of academic interest, Solomon's attraction to heroes relates to a belief that the study of literature is the study of ourselves; our heroes reflect our values, and their presence in literature and pop culture has much to tell us.  Solomon has also taught writing courses addressing themes such as social responsibility, debate and argumentation, and race relations. Upon completion of his MA in English, Solomon plans to pursue an MFA in Creative Writing and continue teaching at the college/university level.

Carla Spataro is a 2005 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowship recipient for fiction. Her work has been both a finalist and won second place in the Philadelphia City Paper Fiction contest. Three of her works have been selected for InterAct Theatre’s Writing Aloud and her short fiction can be read or is forthcoming in Parlor, Wild River Review, XConnect and Hackwriters. She earned an MFA in creative writing from Rosemont College and teaches English and creative writing at Temple, Rutgers and West Chester Universities. Currently, she is the fiction editor and co-publisher of Philadelphia Stories Magazine.

Alan Tarr is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for State Constitutional Studies at Rutgers-Camden.  His B.A. is from the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts, and his M.A. and Ph.D. are from the University of Chicago.  He is entering his 30th year of teaching at Rutgers-Camden. His research focuses on courts, constitutional law, and federalism.  In addition to his teaching and research, he also serves as Pre-Law Adviser for the campus.