Full-time Faculty

Michael Basile has been on faculty at NJCU since 1999 and considers that time to be the most fulfilling of his entire life.  The students whom he has had the privilege of teaching and the colleagues with whom he has been honored to work have enriched his life beyond measure.  His scholarly work during that time has largely been focused on Shakespeare and 20th Century American Drama. 

Jim Broderick has taught at NJCU for more than 25 years. His areas of interest include Irish Literature, Modern British Literature, conspiracy theories, and playwriting. He is the author of several books (more information at https://tinyurl.com/2cy7hfzd), his work has appeared in HuffPost, Bookpleasures, The Collidescope, Quill, and NJ.com, and his plays have been produced in New York City and New Jersey.  

Ethan Bumas is a Professor of English. His doctorate is in English and American Literature and Comparative Literature, his MFAW in Fiction, and his BA in English and Urban Studies. He's had visiting assistant professorships at Indiana University—Bloomington, University of Missouri at Columbia, and Hangzhou University. At NJCU, he teaches classes in creative writing, composition, and sometimes literature of the Americas. He's written fiction, non-fiction, translation, hybrid, drama, and criticism. He used to win prizes for some of that (though not for hybrids). Now he mostly awards prizes to others.

Chris Cunningham, Associate Professor of English

Joshua Fausty is a Professor of English whose research and teaching interests focus on creative nonfiction, literary and critical theory, composition, pedagogy, and 19th- and 20th-century American literature.  He received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University. He serves as Academic Coordinator for the Title V Federal Grant “Learning Without Limits,” which enhances support for first-year Composition students through embedded tutoring at NJCU.

Audrey Fisch, Professor of English

Corey Frost is an Associate Professor of English and the current department Chair. His interests have encompassed creative writing (he is the author of several books of fiction and performance texts), performance theory (his published scholarship is mostly on spoken word performance considered as a kind of social project), writing studies (he has been closely involved in writing pedagogy and the writing curriculum at NJCU, and he is co-author of The Broadview Guide to Writing), and linguistics (his current book project is about grammar and usage). He regularly teaches composition and creative writing courses, as well as Grammar and Usage, Linguistics, and Science Fiction.

Alina Gharabegian, Professor of English

Edvige Giunta is the author of Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors and coeditor of six anthologies, including The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture and Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, recipient of the 2023 Susan Koppelman Award for Best Anthology in Feminist Studies in American and Popular Culture. Her memoirs, essays, poems, and interviews appear in anthologies, journals, and magazines and have been published in Italian translation. At NJCU, she teaches memoir and a course on the Triangle fire as well as other literature and writing courses.

Barbara Hildner, Professor of English

Tan Lin, Professor of English

Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz, an associate professor of English, has been teaching at NJCU since 2005. His teaching and research interests include: 17th- and 18th-century British and American literature; poetry; hip-hop; digital humanities; video game narrative; graphic novels; pandemic literature; religion; and the literature of war, peace, genocide, and transitional justice. He has published articles on a variety of topics, as well as some poetry. He co-edited Global Economies, Cultural Currencies of the Eighteenth Century (AMS Press, 2012). He is a reader for New American Press, and a contributing editor of The Scriblerian. In 2021, he received a Bronx Recognizes Its Own grant from the Bronx Council on the Arts.

Ann E. Wallace is a Professor of English, Director of the Writing Center, and the 2023-24 Poet Laureate of Jersey City. As a long-time survivor of ovarian cancer, a woman with multiple sclerosis, and one of the nation's first Long Covid patients, pain, disability, and disease—as well as hope and resilience—inspire and inform her work as a poet, memoirist, patient advocate, and literary scholar. Her new poetry collection is Days of Grace and Silence: A Chronicle of COVID’s Long Haul (Kelsay Books, 2024). Her work has appeared in Huffington Post, USA Today, and countless collections and literary journals. She earned her Ph.D. from the CUNY Graduate Center.  Wallace serves on the NIH RECOVER Initiative for Long Covid. Her work is online at AnnWallacePhD.com.

Caroline Wilkinson is an Associate Professor of English concentrating in Rhetoric and Composition. She teaches composition, Honors composition, and English major courses such as Writing Studies. Dr. Wilkinson serves as the Composition Coordinator as well as co-director of the Mellon Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon) Grant. She has published in Teaching in the Two-Year College, WPA: Writing Program Administration, and The Journal of Basic Writing. Her research interests concentrate on the pedagogy and professionalization of dual-enrollment courses and alternative assessment measures.