Assistant Professor of English
Director, Classical Studies Minor
Rutgers University -- Camden, N.J.
(856) 225-2937
fiske@camden.rutgers.edu
Shanyn Fiske received her BA from Brown University in 1997 and her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2004. She is the author of the forthcoming book Heretical Hellenism: Women Writers, Ancient Greece, and the Victorian Popular Imagination (Ohio 2008) as well as articles on Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, the classicist Jane Harrison, and Victorian adventurer Alicia Little. Her most recent research examines relations between England and China in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her primary field of interest is nineteenth-century British literature and culture. She directs the Classical Studies minor at Rutgers-Camden and is currently working on a pilot program called Rutgers Reads at Camden, a series of online book discussion groups for RU-C alumni and parents, led by RU-C faculty.
On Sabbatical