Shanyn Fiske, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of English
Director, Classical Studies Minor
Director, Writing Program
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 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 undergraduate Writing Program and the Classical Studies minor at Rutgers-Camden.

Curriculum Vitae

Fall 2009

• Classical Backgrounds to English Literature (50:350:313)

• Practicum in the Teaching of Writing (56:842:569)

Spring 2009

• Nineteenth-Century British Novel (50:350:357)

• Greek Tragedy and Its Legacy: Graduate Seminar (56:350:528)

Fall 2008

• Honors World Masterpieces (50:090:230)
  
• Victorian Literature (50:350:324)

Spring 2008

• Classical Backgrounds to English Literature: Antigone and Medea (50:350:313)

• Readings in Major Authors: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot (50:350:484)

• Nineteenth-Century British Novel: Graduate Seminar (56:350:570)

Fall 2007

On Sabbatical

Spring 2007

• World Masterpieces (50:090:238)

• Victorian Literature: Graduate Seminar (56:350:571)

Fall 2006

• Honors World Masterpieces (50:090:230)

• Classical Backgrounds to English Litrature: Antigone and Medea (50:350:313)

Spring 2006

• Introduction to Literary Study (50:350:220)

• Nineteenth-Century British Novel: Graduate Seminar (56:350:593)

Fall 2005

• Modern British Fiction (50:350:358)

• Readings in Major Authors: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot (50:350:481)

Spring 2005

• Victorian Literature (50:350:324)

• Victorian Literature: Graduate Seminar (56:350:571)

Fall 2004

• Women in Literature (50:350:338)

• Nineteenth-Century British Novel (50:350:357)