I have taught at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and at Brookdale Community College, and I hold a Ph.D in American Literature from the University of Essex (UK). My scholarly concerns include issues of aesthetics, nationalism, American Exceptionalism, and the works of Hawthorne and Melville. My articles have appeared or are forthcoming in American Literature Compass, the Journal of American Studies, European Journal of American Studies, the International Journal of the Humanities, and 49th Parallel. One of my most recent ongoing projects is a translation of the Mouvements du Coeur by Louise de Vilmorin. You can follow my progress at the blog site louisede.wordpress.com
I also hold an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College, and a chapbook of my poems is forthcoming from Beloit Poetry Journal. My poems have also been published or are forthcoming in journals such as The American Poetry Review, Literary Imagination, Pif, MiPOesias, The George Washington Review, Parthenon West, The Cimarron Review, The Sycamore Review, The Clackamas Review, Sundog, Slipstream, 42opus, The Paterson Literary Review, Fourteen Hills, and elsewhere in print and online. I am the recipient of a Poetry Fellowship from the NJ State Council on the Arts. In the Summer of 2010, I attended the Bread Loaf Writers Conference on the Carol Houck Returning Contributor Scholarship in Poetry. I am also the Managing Editor of the online literary magazine Mead: A Journal of Literature and Libations and the Founding Editor and Curator of Trans-Portal: The Hub of Transformation Studies.
