Lynne M. DeCicco Professor of English Office: Somerset 333 VoiceMail: (908) 526-1200, ext. 8384 eMail: ldecicco@raritanval.edu
Professor Lynne DeCicco leads a discussion on Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights in “The Victorian Novel.”

Education:

• Ph.D., Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, English and Comparative Literature
• M.Phil., M.A., Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,
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• B.A., Rutgers College

Publication:

• Uneasy Alliances:  Lawyers and Women in the Nineteenth-Century English
• Novel (Mellen Press, 1996); revision of doctoral thesis

Teaching Experience:

• 1987-Present
  Raritan Valley Community College
• 1987-1992
  Instructor of English
• 1992-1997
  Assistant Professor of English
• 1997-2002
  Associate Professor of English
• 2002-
  Professor of English
• 1999-2001
  Visiting Professor, Rutgers University, as part of Writing Alliance Teaching Exchange/li>
• 1982-1987
  Raritan Valley Community College, Adjunct Professor of English
• 1979-1984
  Teaching Assistant and Preceptor, Columbia College and School of General Studies, Columbia University

Courses Taught:

• At Raritan Valley Community College:
  • English I and II
  • Humanities I and II
  • World Literature I and II
  • English Literature I and II
  • The Victorian Novel
  • The Short Story
  • Women in Literature
  • Law and Literature
  • Honors English II
• At Columbia University:
  • Surveys of World, British and American Literature
  • College Composition I and II
  • Honors College Composition
• At Rutgers University:
  • College Composition I and II
  • Honors College Composition

  Awards and Accomplishments:

• May, 2002:
  • Leadership Award at NISOD International Leadership Conference, Austin, Texas
• 2002, 2001::
  • Voted for inclusion in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers by former honors students
• 1995-2000:
  • Director, Honors Program
  • Chair, Honors Advisory Council
• April, 2000:
  • Awarded plaque at Community of Scholars colloquium for
    “extraordinary service to the RVCC Honors Program.”
• 1996-1998:
  • Library exhibit, “Evolution of a Book,” showcasing doctoral thesis
  • scholarship and other contributions to the college
• 1996-1997:
  • Mid-Career Fellow, Princeton University

Memberships:

• Charles Dickens Society
• Thomas Hardy Society
• National Collegiate Honors Council

Presentations:

• 1999:
  • National Honors Conference, Chicago, Illinois:
    “Problems and Solutions: Implementing an Honors Program at a Community College”
• 2000:
  • National Collegiate Honors Conference, Orlando, Florida:
    “The Community College Honors Experience: A Pandora’s Box of Possibilities”
• 1997:
  • New Jersey Writing Project:
    “Teaching Women’s Studies and Avoiding Patriarchal Overtones”
• 1996:
  • Approaches to teaching Kate Chopin’s The Awakening; at RVCC
• 1992:
  • Interdisciplinary grant:
    “Quest: Self and Society”
    presentation at Summer Colloquium: “The Woman’s Quest”
• 1990:
  • co-Director of grant on Race, Gender and Ethnicity
  • presentation on Approaches to teaching Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
• 199l:
  • Law and Literature Society, New York:
    presentation of  work-in-progress, first chapter of dissertation on Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener” and  attitudes to law and legal practitioners
• 1982-1990:
  various presentations for “Let’s Talk About It” at Somerset County Library, including discussions on
  • Pride and Prejudice,
  • A Christmas Carol,
  • Tess of the D’Urbervilles,
  • Bleak House,
  • Great Expectations,
  • The Awakening,
  • The House of Mirth
• 1986:
  • Modern Language Association, Chair, Special Session, New York:
    “Pleading Her Case: The Uneasy Alliance between Women and the Law”
• 1980-82:
  • various presentations at Columbia University at teaching colloquia on pedagogical issues ranging from teaching the research paper to holistic scoring of college composition essayss

Updated 2007/3/6 by L.W.B.