Kathleen Brogan

Associate Professor of English

Teaches modernism, contemporary American fiction and poetry, ethnic literature, and urban literature and photography.

I teach courses in modernism, contemporary American fiction and poetry, ethnic literature, and urban literature and photography. My book, Cultural Haunting: Ghosts and Ethnicity in Recent American Fiction, examines how ghost stories in ethnic literature reflect the way shared group histories are recalled and reshaped. I am now working on a study of how cities are depicted in American literature and art.

Education

  • B.A., Queens College
  • Ph.D., Yale University

Current and upcoming courses

  • Critical Interpretation

    ENG120

    English 120 introduces students to a level of interpretative sophistication and techniques of analysis essential not just in literary study but in all courses that demand advanced engagement with language. In active discussions, sections perform detailed readings of poetry drawn from a range of historical periods, with the aim of developing an understanding of the richness and complexity of poetic language and of connections between form and content, text and cultural and historical context. The reading varies from section to section, but all sections involve learning to read closely and to write persuasively and elegantly.