College Writing & Adjunct Faculty
Meaghan Brewer
Title: Adjunct Lecturer of English
Office: Sitterly House
Phone: 973-408-3863
Email: mbrewer@drew.edu
Biography: Meaghan Brewer received her Master of Arts in English in 2009 from Temple University. She is currently working on her dissertation, which is based on an ethnographic study about the conceptions of literacy that graduate student instructors bring to their first semester of teaching composition. Her research interests include literacy, reading theory, nineteenth century American rhetoric, and feminist rhetorics.
Joel Campbell
Title: Adjunct Lecturer of English
Office: Sitterly House 209
Phone: 973-408-8807
Email: jjcampbe@drew.edu
Dennis Coyle
Title: Adjunct Lecturer of English
Office: Sitterly House 209
Phone: 973-408-8810
Email: dcoyle@drew.edu
Jennifer Craig
Title: Adjunct Lecturer of English
Office: Sitterly House 209
Phone: 973-408-3864
Email: jcraig@drew.edu
Biography: Jennifer Craig received a Ph.D. in English Literature in 2009 from The University of Glasgow. Her research and teaching interests include: composition, lexicography, cross-cultural communication, Renaissance drama, poetry, and pageantry, early modern English court culture, emblem books, postcolonial theory, and medieval to modern allegory. Her dissertation on Ben Jonson’s court masques is under contract to be published by AMS Press. She is the co-editor of R/EVOLUTIONS: Mapping Culture, Community, and Change from Ben Jonson to Angela Carter (2009) and has written articles on early modern masques. She has also proofread The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary and edited several dictionaries and grammar books for the Language Division of HarperCollins. She teaches College Writing courses at Drew.
Marc Evans
Title: Adjunct Lecturer of English
Office: Sitterly House
Phone: 973-408-8819
Email: mevans@drew.edu
Elaina Given
Title: Adjunct Lecturer of English
Office: Sitterly House 309
Phone: 973-408-8817
Email: egiven@drew.edu
Biography: Elaina Given received her Ph.D. in English Literature in 2011 from Drew University. Her research and teaching interests include: Victorian Literature, British Modernism, British Romanticism, Humanism and Posthumanism, Eco-criticism, Elegies, Literature and Science, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, History of Education in America, Western Literature, Composition, Developmental English, and Thesis Preparation. She currently teaches at both Drew University and Stevens Institute of Technology.
Jeevan Gurung
Title: Adjunct Lecturer of English
Office: Sitterly House 309
Phone: 973-408-3765
Email: jgurung@drew.edu
Theodore Hart
Title: Adjunct Lecturer of English
Office: Sitterly House 309
Phone: 973-408-3820
Email: thart@drew.edu
Eric Johnson-DeBaufre
Title: Adjunct Lecturer of English
Office: Sitterly House
Phone: 973-408-3827
Email: edebaufre@drew.edu
Jocelyn Lieu
Title: Adjunct Lecturer of English
Office: Sitterly House
Phone: 973-408-3876
Email: jlieu@drew.edu
Robin Mako Citarella
Title: Adjunct Lecturer of English
Office: Sitterly House 209
Phone: 973-408-8812
Email: rmako@drew.edu
Henry Margenau
Title: Adjunct Lecturer of English
Office: Sitterly House 309
Phone: 973-408-3857
Email: hmargenau@drew.edu
John McIntyre
Title: Adjunct Lecturer of English
Office: Sitterly House 301A
Phone: 973-408-3809
Email: jmcintyre@drew.edu
Barbara Millman
Title: Adjunct Lecturer of English
Office: Sitterly House
Phone: 973-408-3870
Email: bmillman@drew.edu
Richard Muldoon
Title: Adjunct Lecturer of English
Office: Sitterly House
Phone: 973-408-3825
Email: rmuldoon@drew.edu
Mark Raines
Title: Adjunct Lecturer of English
Office: Sitterly House
Phone: 973-408-3855
Email: mraines@drew.edu
Biography: Mark received his BA from Wesleyan University, MA from Georgetown, and is ABD currently at Temple University. His academic interests include American Literature, composition, and literary theory. He teaches at FDU and is brand new to the Drew family. Speaking of family, he has twin two year old daughters. Mark and his family enjoy living in New Providence.
Bruce Reynolds
Title: Adjunct Lecturer of English
Office: Sitterly House
Phone: 973-408-8820
Email: breynold@drew.edu
Madhuparna (Maya) Sanyal
Title: Assistant Director of the Writing Center and Adjunct Lecturer of English
Office: Brothers College 109
Phone: (973) 805-8834
Email: msanyal@drew.edu
Biography: Maya Sanyal received her Ph.D. from Drew University in 2002. Her degree is in English Literature, with a concentration in Women’s Studies. Once an international student from Kolkata, India who learned the hard way that linguistic facility and cultural knowledge are two completely different animals, Maya’s intellectual foci include early 20th century colonial women writers, first-year composition theory and practice, and writing center theory, practice, and administration. As a Writing instructor, she is particularly interested in college-level writing in the U.S. in relation to students who are non-native speakers of English, academic writing and students with cognitive learning disabilities, and academic writing for populations who are both NSS and LD students, traditional and adult/returning. She is the Assistant Director of the Drew University Writing Center, Coordinator of the Content Tutoring Program (Office of Academic Services), and Coordinator of the Summer College Program. Maya’s philosophy of teaching/learning is based on four core beliefs: 1. first, do no harm (or an appropriate academic version of the Hippocratic oath); 2. teach to empower, not to disempower (channeling Paolo Freire); 3. if you are paying attention, you realize that the older you grow, the less you know (saying from one of the Hindu vedas); and 4. when you need a teacher, one comes along (Buddhist saying). Maya’s totem is the turtle: slow, steady, and infinitely cautious is the path to wisdom. There is no race involved, no matter what the hare might believe. What it needs is a nice, warm cup of tea, a tall, cool glass of mango lassi, or, to quote Shah Rukh Khan in one of his blockbusters, a “chill pill.”
Hirsh Sawhney
Title: Adjunct Lecturer of English
Office: Sitterly House
Phone: 973-408-3882
Email: hsawhney@drew.edu
Jason Schneiderman
Title: Adjunct Lecturer of English
Office: Sitterly House
Phone: 973-408-3854
Email: jschneiderman@drew.edu
Matthew Shaer
Title: Adjunct Lecturer of English
Office: Sitterly House 301A
Phone: 973-408-
Email: mshaer@drew.edu
Annalise Silvanch
Title: Adjunct Lecturer of English
Office: Sitterly House 209
Phone: 973-408-3869
Email: asilvanch@drew.edu
Biography: Annalise Silivanch is a writing instructor, author and editor with a background in writing and reporting on environmental, travel and community-oriented issues. She received her M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied nonfiction and poetry under former poet laureates Gerald Stern and Billy Collins. She is the author of Rebuilding America’s Infrastructure and Making the Right College Choice (Rosen, 2010). She is also a Cloud Institute-certified sustainability education trainer, helping schools and communities enact the pedagogical and behavioral changes necessary to shift toward a sustainable future, and working with them to find funding for these goals.
Paul Thifault
Title: Adjunct Lecturer of English
Office: Sitterly House
Phone: 973-408-3874
Email: pthifault@drew.edu
Courtney Zoffness
Title: Adjunct Lecturer of English
Office: Sitterly House 301A
Phone: 973-408-3819
Email: czoffness@drew.edu