People
Faculty
Marianne Cotugno
Titles
- Assistant Professor
Education
- Ph.D. in English Literature, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA May 2002
- M.A. in English Literature, The Pennsylvania State University
- B.A. in English Literature, Rutgers University, Douglass College, New Brunswick, NJ
Teaching Interests
- technology and pedagogy
- technical writing
- composition
- the classroom as a "place of transgression" (Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran)
Research Interests
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Conrad Richter
- Wyndham Lewis
- 20th century American literature
- space and memory
Selected Publications
- Interview with Robin Becker, The Writer’s Chronicle, 40: 5 (April 2008).
- “The Monkey Ship at Mesker Zoo,” The Nabokovian, 59: 1 (Fall 2007): 33-36.
- “Conrad Richter and Karl Goedecke in the Archives: The Story of an Author and a Bookseller,” The Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America. 100: 1 (March 2006): 105-117.
- “Elizabeth Bishop’s lieux de memoire.” Q/W/E/R/T/Y (12) 2002, 101-108.
Web Publications
- "Conrad Richter as Author,"
Forthcoming from Special Collections at The Pennsylvania State University - "John Updikes Buchanan Dying Web Project," http://www.libraries.psu.edu/speccolls/rbm/collections/BuchananDying/index.htm
- "English Emblem Book Project,"
http://emblem.libraries.psu.edu/home.htm - "Iconologia; Or, Moral Emblems, by Cesar Ripa,"
http://emblem.libraries.psu.edu/Ripa/Images/ripatoc.htm
Grants and Awards
- Grants for Write Now!, Middletown Rotary and Rotary International, Middletown Community Foundation
Work in Progress
Dr. Cotugno is working with a local law enforcement agency to evaluate and improve report writing. She is preparing an essay that examines multiple authorship and the police report as a public document.