The Literature Major at Ramapo College

Lisa Williams Professor of Literature

Office:		B 139
Campus Phone:		(201) 684-7278
Email:		liwillia@ramapo.edu
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Letters to Virginia Woolf (Hamilton Book: 2005).

Educational Background : B.A. University of Massachussetts, Amherst, Russian language and literature major. (first two undergraduate years at Amherst College ; Pushkin Institute, Moscow , senior semester abroad). M.A., Liberal Studies, City University of New York Graduate Center . M.A., Ph.D., English, City University of New York Graduate Center . Certificate in Women's Studies.

Areas of Specialization: Creative Non-Fiction, Composition Pedagogy, Women Writers, Twentieth Century American and British Writers, African American Writers, Romanticism.

Courses Regularly Taught : College English; Readings in Humanities; Readings in Poetry; The Novels of Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf; Literature Seminar: Modernism; Creative Non-Fiction.

Scholarship Letters to Virginia Woolf (Hamilton Book: 2005). The Artist as Outsider in the Novels of Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf , Greenwood Press, 2000. I have also published articles and reviews in such journals as Women's Studies Quarterly, Transformations , Virginia Woolf Miscellany , and Faculty Resource Network . I have published poety in For She is the Tree of Life: Grandmothers Through the Eyes of Women Writers and A Review .

Points of Interest : In all of my courses, my goal is to have students get excited about language. The courses I regularly teach reflect my interests—whether it is the concerns of great writers like Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf, or the range of poetry in a course like Readings in Poetry. I also love teaching world literature, particularly the classics from the Ancient world, along with contemporary writers. I am interested in the teaching of writing, and the creation of poetry. I want students to discover something about themselves and the world in all of my classes.