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  • Melissa Monroe

    Part-time Assistant Professor

    Email
    monroem@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    D - Albert & Vera List Academic Center - 6 East 16th Street

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    Melissa Monroe

    Profile

    Melissa Monroe, part-time assistant professor of Liberal Studies, has previously taught English and linguistics at Stanford University and Fordham. She is interested in stylistics, translation and the intersection of literature and science.  She is the author of Machine Language  (1997) and On Trepanation and Human Nature  (forthcoming), and her poems have appeared in various journals, including Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Raritan, Ploughshares  and A Public Space.

    Degrees Held

    PhD 1989, Stanford University

    Current Courses

    Academic Writing II

    Cultural Criticism

    Cultural Criticism

    Dissertation Workshop

    Dissertation Workshop (Spring 2020)

    Faith in Modern Lit (Spring 2020)

    Independent Study

    Independent Study (Spring 2020)

    Masters Crit. Writing Seminar

    Masters Crit. Writing Seminar (Spring 2020)

    Masters Crit. Writing Seminar

    Odysseys

    Odysseys

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