麻豆传媒

Professor of Literature

Year Joined RCNJ: 1997

Contact Information

• Phone: (201) 684-7425
• Email: eshannon@ramapo.edu
• Office: B-207
• Office Hours: MR 3:00-4:30 pm
• Department Website

Education:

• B.A., 麻豆传媒 of New Jersey
• M.A., North Carolina State University
• Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Courses Offered:

For the Literature major:

• Contemporary American Literature
• Comic American Novel
• 20th Century American Novel
• Survey of American Literature I & II
• Major Authors: Mark Twain

For the American Studies major:

• American Crime Fiction and Film
• Comics and American Culture

For the Mals Graduate Program:

• American Gothic: The Literacy Tradition
• American Folk: The Voice of the People in American Literature

Teaching Interests:

• American Literature especially twentieth century fiction

Research Interests:

• Literary studies that overlap with popular culture
• American folk music
• Detective Fiction

Scholarly Activity:

• 鈥淏ecky Thatcher鈥檚 Literary Half-life: Appropriating Mark Twain鈥檚 Good Girl.鈥�Adaptation, apad030, . 15 September 2023.
• 鈥溾�橠on鈥檛 Call Me Woody鈥�: The Punk Compassion and Folk Rebellion of Joe Strummer and Woody Guthrie.鈥� Punk Rock Warlord: The Life and Work of Joe Strummer. Eds. Barry J. Faulk and Brady Harrison. Surrey, England: Ashgate Books, 2013.

• 鈥淪hameful, Impure Art: Robert Crumb鈥檚 Autobiographical Comics and the Confessional Poets.鈥� Biography 35.4 (Fall 2013).
• 鈥淎rt and Commerce in the Classroom.鈥澛�Teaching Comics and Graphic Narratives.聽Ed. Lan Dong. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. 2012.
• 鈥淪omething Black in the American Psyche: Formal Innovation and Freudian Imagery in the Comics of Winsor McCay and Robert Crumb.鈥澛�The Canadian Review of American Studies. July 2010.
• 鈥淥ur Clothes are a Lie Disguise and Christian Typology in Pudd鈥檔head Wilson鈥� Mark Twain Annual.2009.
• 鈥淭om Ripley.鈥� Student鈥檚 Companion to American Literary Characters, Facts on File. 2007.
• 鈥淭alkin鈥� World Revolution: Woody Guthrie鈥檚 Seeds of Man as Socialist Parable.鈥� Intersecting Paths: Continuing Legacy of Old Southwestern Humor. Ed. Ed Piacentino, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP. 2006
• 鈥淲here was the sex?鈥�: Fetishism and Dirty Minds in Patricia Highsmith鈥檚 The Talented Mr. Ripley.鈥� Modern Language Studies. 34.1, Spring 2005.