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
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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
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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
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