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  • Melissa Monroe

    Part-time Assistant Professor

    Email
    monroem@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    D - 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), On Trepanation and Human Nature (2014), and Medusa Beach and Other Poems (2020). Her poems have appeared in various journals, including Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Raritan, Ploughshares and A Public Space.

    Degrees Held

    PhD 1989, Stanford University

    Future Courses

    Faith in Modern Lit
    GPUB 5311, Spring 2026

    Faith in Modern Lit
    GLIB 5310, Spring 2026

    Independent Study
    GPUB 6990, Fall 2025

    Masters Crit. Writing Seminar
    GPUB 6301, Spring 2026

    Masters Crit. Writing Seminar
    GLIB 6301, Spring 2026

    The Personal & the Political
    GPUB 5176, Fall 2025

    The Personal & the Political
    GLIB 5176, Fall 2025

    Past Courses

    Cultural Criticism
    GLIB 5112, Fall 2024

    Cultural Criticism
    GPUB 5112, Fall 2024

    Dissertation Workshop
    GEQV 7949, Fall 2024

    Independent Study
    GPUB 6990, Fall 2024

    Language & The Self
    GPUB 5283, Spring 2025

    Language and the Self
    GLIB 5489, Spring 2025

    Masters Crit. Writing Seminar
    GPUB 6301, Spring 2025

    Masters Crit. Writing Seminar
    GLIB 6301, Spring 2025

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