Associate Professor of Comparative World Literature

Year Joined RCNJ: 2000

Contact Information

• Phone: (201) 684-7750
• Email: mgiacopp@ramapo.edu
• Office: B-208
• Office Hours: T 11:15-11:45am, 4:00-5:30 pm; F 3:30-4:15 pm; Also by appointment.
• Department Website

Education:

• B.A. in French from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Additional certification in Latin American Studies)
• M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the Pennsylvania State University.

Courses Offered:

• Literatures of the Americas
• African American Women Writers
• Survey of European Literature
• Fictional Histories in the Americas
• College English
• Readings in the Humanities
• Introduction to Literature

Teaching Interests:

• Literatures of the Americas
• International Women’s Writing
• Francophone Literature
• Translation Theory and Practice

Research Interests:

• Literatures of the Americas
• Louisiana Literature & Culture
• Francophone Literature
• Translation Theory and Practice

Scholarly Activity:

• “More Than Music and Food:  Teaching about Cajun and Creole Peoples and Cultures.”  2015
• Monika Giacoppe, “North America’s Francophone Borderlands.” The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Studies, ed. Reingard M. Nischik. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 165-81.
• “‘The Task of the Translator’ in One Hundred Years of Solitude and Mauve Desert.” (Special issue of Bucknell Review). Ed. Katherine Faull. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell U.P., 2004:124-38.
• “‘Lucky to be so bilingual’: Québécois and Chicano/a Literatures in a Comparative Context.” Reprinted in Canada and Its Americas, ed. Sarah Casteel and Winfried Siemerling. Forthcoming from McGill University Press, 2009
• The Transparent Girl and Other Stories. A translation of selected short works by Swiss writer S. Corinna Bille, done with Christiane Makward. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006.