Office:   Atrium 248
Phone:   973-720-3065
Email:   broomej1@wpunj.edu
Office Hours:   TR 5-6 W 4-5

Department: English
Position: Assistant Professor
Area Specialization: 18th-century British Literature and Cultural Studies, Adolescent Literature, Latin American Literature, Translation Studies

PUBLICATIONS

Book

Fictive Domains: Body, Landscape, and Nostalgia, 1717-1770. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2007.

Articles

"'Her lovely arm a little bloody': Richardson's Gothic Bodies." Gothic Studies 8.1 (2006): 9-21.

"Fantasy and Social Change in Thomas Deloney's Jack of Newbury and Thomas of Reading." Studies in the Humanities 23.1 (1996): 84-98.

"Thoreau's 'Basket of a Delicate Texture': Weaving History in A Week." The Concord Saunterer  4 (1996): 175-85.

Fiction

"The Effect of Light upon Water."  Primavera 16/17 (1993): 22-27.

 Translations from Spanish to English

"The Iriarte Family" by Mario Benedetti. Webster Review 17 (1993): 18-24.

"Man with Minotaur on Chest" by Enrique Serna. New Writing from Mexico. Spec. ed. of        Triquarterly 85 (1992): 63-77. 

"The Natural Thing to Do" by María Luisa Puga. New Writing from Mexico. Spec. ed. of Triquarterly 85 (1992): 218-25.

"An Historical Adventure: Notes on Chicano Literature" by Martha Robles. New Writing from Mexico. Spec. ed. of Triquarterly 85 (1992): 336-39.

"The Black Grocery" by Silvina Ocampo. Fiction 10.1-2 (1991): 253-57.

"The Notebook" by Silvina Ocampo. Fiction 10.1-2 (1991): 258-61.

"The Estate" by Silvina Ocampo. Fiction 10.1-2 (1991): 267-70.

 "Us" by Silvina Ocampo. Fiction 10.1-2 (1991): 271-74.

Reviews

Rev. of Kathleen M. Oliver, Samuel Richardson, Dress, and Discourse (Palgrave 2008), forthcoming in Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Rev. of Sophie Gee, The Scandal of the Season (Scribner 2007), The Scriblerian (Spring 2011)

“Solitude, Cruelty Dominate Coloane's Cape Horn." Rev. of Cape Horn and Other Stories from the End of the World by Francisco Coloane. Miami Herald, 18 August 1991: 7I.

"Galeano Humanizes History with Tenderness and Wit."  Rev. of The Book of Embraces by  Eduardo Galeano. Miami Herald, 2 June 1991: 9I.