Faculty Profile

Dr. June S. Dwyer Professor of English

Education:

• B.A., Vassar College, 1966
• M.A., Columbia University, 1967
• Ph.D., New York University, 1981

Research and Scholarly Interests:

Ethnic American Literature, Literature and War, Literature and the Environment

Publications:

In addition to having written two books (Jane Austen and John Masefield), for Continuum's Literature and Life Series, Dr. Dwyer has contributed articles on women and war to Studies in Short Fiction, The Faulkner Journal and Modern Language Studies.  Recent articles on ethnic American literature and on environmental  issues include:  "Protocols of Violence: Hunters, the Wife of Bath, and Pam Houston's Cowboys Are My Weakness in Studies in Short Fiction (Fall 1998); "Speaking and Listening: The Immigrant As Spy Who Comes in From the Cold" in The Immigrant Experience in NorthAmerican Literature (Greenwood 1999); "Feast and Famine:  James Joyce and the Politics of Food" in Proteus (Spring 2000); Disease, Deformity, and Deviance:  Writing the Language of Immigration Law and the Eugenics Movement on the Immigrant Body" in (MELUS Spring 2003), "When Willie Met Gatsby" in LIT (Spring 2003); and "Moving In: The Fortunate Pilgrim, Puzo's Italian Immigrants, and the Rhetoric of Mobility" in Voices in Italian Americana (Fall 2003),  "Yann Martel's Life of Pi and the Evolution of the Shipwreck Narrative,"  Modern Language Studies (Fall 2005).  "Canon Openers, Book Clubs, and Middlebrow Culture" in Multiethnic Literature and Canon Debates (SUNY Press 2006).  "Ethnic Home Improvement." ISLE (Summer 2007).  Forthcoming in the South Atlantic Review, “A Non-Companion Species Manifesto:  Humans, Wild Animals, and ‘The Pain of Anthropomorphism.’”

Courses Taught/Teaching:

• ENGL 211: Written Communication
• ENGL 260: Comedy and Tragedy
• ENGL 279: Literature and the Environment
• ENGL 280: The Irish Literary Revival
• ENGL 306: Introduction to Literary Study
• ENGL 347: Literature and War
• ENGL 380: Ethnic American Literature
• ENGL 392: Special Topics: Reading Paws and Claws: The Human-Animal
                          Relationship in Literature
• LLRN 103: Global Origins of U.S. Society
• LLRN 204: Roots of Modern Age: Literature

Contact Information:

• Telephone: (718) 862- 7121
• Office: Miguel 428
• Fax: (718) 862-8044
• e-mail: june.dwyer@manhattan.edu

Page last updated by  K. Balaj on June 19, 2008