Professor of Literature

Year Joined RCNJ: 2010

Contact Information

• Phone: 201-684-7835
• Email: edaffron@ramapo.edu
• Office: B-138
• Office Hours: TF 9:05-9:50 am; T 3:30-4:30 pm; F 3:00-4:00 pm

Education:

• B.A., University of Alabama
• M.A., SUNY-Buffalo
• Ph.D., SUNY-Buffalo

Teaching Interests:

• Gothic Literature
• Literary Theory
• English Grammar

Research Interests:

• Gothic Literature
• Critical Theory
• Sexuality Studies
• Autotheory
• Contemporary Moroccan Literature and Film

Scholarly Activities:

• “Strolling the Slender Streets of Scorching Salé.” Moving across the Landscape in Search of an Idea, Air and Nothingness P, edited by Todd Sanders, forthcoming in 2024.
• “Hôtel La Fêlure: A Work of Fictocriticism.” TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses, special issue on creative-critical writing in practice, forthcoming in 2024.
• “Savories: Dieting with Roland Barthes One New York Spring.” Second installment. The AutoEthnographer, vol. 4, issue 1, 2024, theautoethnographer.com/savories-dieting-with-roland-barthes-one-new-york-spring-2/.
• Translator. “Around Salé from Afar.” By Abdellah Taïa, Ezra: Online Journal of Translation, forthcoming in 2024.
• “Incidents in Marrakech and Beyond.” Impost: A Journal of Creative and Critical Work, vol. 17, winter 2024, pp. 25-27, https://www.eapsu.org/resources/impost/Impost_volume_17_2023_4.pdf.
• “Fragments of an Intermittent Lover.” L’Esprit Literary Review, issue 2, 2023. lespritliteraryreview.org/2023/04/04/fragments-of-an-intermittent-lover/.      
• “Savories: Dieting with Roland Barthes One New York Spring.” First installment. The AutoEthnographer, vol. 3, issue 3, 2023, theautoethnographer.com/savories-dieting-with-roland-barthes-one-new-york-spring/.
• “Interstitial Living: Fragments towards an Ethics.” European Journal of Life Writing, vol. 11, 2022, pp. 32-64, U of Groningen P, https://doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.11.37967.
• “The Pianist’s Fingers: Fragments of Desire.” Synthesis: An Anglophone Journal of Comparative Literary Studies, no. 14, 2021, pp. 161-72. eJournals, ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/synthesis/article/view/32416/24548.
• “Re-mantling the Face: The Facial Politics of WWI-Era Portrait Masks.” Body Studies Journal, vol. 3, no. 1, 2021, pp. 30-41. bodystudiesjournal.org/re-mantlingtheface/.
• “Handle with Care: The Biopolitics of Coronavirus-Prevention Guidelines.” Angles: New Perspectives on the Anglophone World, issue 12, 2021, pp. 1-16. Open Edition Journals, https://doi.org/10.4000/angles.3628.
• “Manhandling the Body: A Foucauldian Approach.” From the Introduction to The Body in Theory: Essays after Lacan and Foucault, edited with Becky McLaughlin, McFarland Publishers, 2021, pp. 12-18.
• “Transatlantic Terror: James Hammond’s Circulating Library and the Minerva Press Gothic Novel.” Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840, issue 23, Summer 2020, pp. 109-23. Cardiff University Press, https://doi.org/10.18573/romtext.75.
• “Taking a Sagittal View: Reflecting on My Academic Career.” Specialists: Passions and Careers, edited by Cristina Artenie and Danielle Joy Davis, Universitas Press, 2017, pp. 27-29.
• “Far from Heaven: Three Lessons in Lacanian Desire.” POMPA, 2005, pp. 66-71.
• “The Resistant Gap: Foucault, Lacan, and Resistance.” POMPA, 2003, pp. 34-40.
• Romantic Doubles: Sex and Sympathy in British Gothic Literature, 1790-1830. AMS P, 2002.
• “Double Trouble: The Self, the Social Order, and the Trouble with Sympathy in the Romantic and Post-modern Gothic.” Gothic Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2001, pp. 75-83.
• “Child’s Play: A Short Publication and Critical History of Jane Austen’s Juvenilia.” A Companion to Jane Austen Studies, edited by Laura Cooner Lambdin and Robert Thomas Lambdin, Greenwood Press, 2000, pp. 191-97.
• “(Dis)Orienting the Self: The Figure of the White European Man in Byron’s Oriental Tales and Travels.” Mapping Masculinities in Nineteenth-Century England, edited by William Brewer and Jay Losey, Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1999, pp. 69-90.
• “Male Bonding: Sympathy and Shelley’s Frankenstein.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol. 21, 1999, pp. 413-33.
• “‘Magnetical Sympathy’: Strategies of Power and Resistance in Godwin’s Caleb Williams.” Criticism, vol. 37, 1995, pp. 213-32.