Brock Haussamen Professor, English Department Phone: 908-526-1200, Ext. 8307 Email Me Here: bhaussam@raritanval.edu

Education

• B.A., English, Columbia College, 1966.
• M.A., English, University of Connecticut, 1967.
• M.A., History, Rutgers University, 1976.
• Princeton Mid-Career Fellowship, 1979-1980.

Books

• Revising The Rules: Traditional Grammar and Modern Linguistics. Kendall/Hunt, 1993, 1997, 2000.
• When the Railroads Came to Somerset County. Raritan Press. 2000.
• Grammar Alive: A Guide for Teachers. NCTE. 2004

Articles

• "How Readers Read: What Every Professor Should Know." Community College Humanities Review. December, 1992.
• "The Future of the English Sentence." Visible Language. Winter 1994.
• "The Passive-Reading Fallacy." Journal of Reading. February, 1995.
• "Notes From the Student Side of the Classroom." The Teaching Professor. July, 1996.
• "Puns, Public Discourse, and Postmodernism." Visible Language. Winter 1997.
• "Service Learning and First-Year Composition." Teaching English in the Two-Year College. October, 1997.
• "Death and Syntax." Death Studies. June, 1998.
• "Three Fictional Deaths Compared with the Near-Death Experience." Journal of Near Death Studies. Winter 2000.
• "Public Grammar, Private Grammar: The Social Orientation of Grammar." Syntax in the Schools. Summer 2001.

Courses Taught

• American Literature Before the Civil War
• American Literature Since the Civil War (traditional and on-line)
• Basic Composition Seminar
• English I
• English II
• Language, Mind, and Society
• Foundations of Reading I
• Foundations of Reading II
• Fundamentals of Writing
• Introduction to Humanities I
• Introduction to Humanities II
• Science Fiction
• World Literature I
• World Literature II

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