Professor of Literature

Year Joined RCNJ: 1996

Contact Information

• Phone: (201) 684-7278
• Email: liwillia@ramapo.edu
• Office: B-139
• Office Hours: MR 9:45-11:15 am, 5:50-6:05 pm
• Department Website

Education:

• B.A., University of Massachusetts
• M.A., Ph.D., C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center

Courses Offered:

• Critical Reading and Writing
• Readings in Poetry
• Major Authors: The Novels of Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf
• Modernism
• Survey of American Poetry
• International Poetry
• Survey of America Literature: Romantics to Contemporary
• The Personal Essay and Introduction to Creative Writing

Teaching Interests:

• Twentieth Century International Writers
• Creative Writing

Research Interests:

• Women writers, particularly Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf

Scholarly Activity: Books

• Forget Russia. New York: Tailwinds Press, December 2020.  (Historical Novel)
• In the Early Morning Calling. Kentucky: Finishing Line Press, 2018, (Poetry Chapbook)
• Sky Studies. Kentucky: Finishing Line Press, 2014 (Poetry Chapbook)
• The Eighth Phrase. Cincinnati: Porkbelly Press, 2014 (Poetry Chapbook)
• Letters to Virginia Woolf. Lanham: Hamilton Books, June 2005. (Memoir)
• The Artist as Outsider in the Novels of Toni Morrison and Virginia  Westport: Greenwood Press, August 2000.