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Stuart Hirschberg
Associate Professor

E-MAIL: stuarth@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Telephone: (973) 353-5279 Ext. 526

Office: Hill Hall 526

Education:        

Columbia University AB (English, 1965)
Wagner College MA (English, 1966)
NYU Ph.D. (English, 1972)

 
Research Interests / Current Projects:          

Literature

Rhetoric

Popular Culture

Cross-Cultural and Multicultural Studies

Mythology

International Short Fiction

Reading Visual Texts

The Influence of Aeschylus’s Oresteia through Ted Hughes’ translation

 
Courses Taught:           

Undergraduate:

Literary Masterpieces

Contemporary American Literature

Foundations of Literary Study  

Publications:     

At the Top of the Tower: Yeats’s Poetry Explored Through a Vision, 1979

Myth in the Poetry of Ted Hughes, 1981

Patterns Across the Disciplines, 1988

Strategies of Argument, Second Ed., 1996

Essential Strategies of Argument, 1996

One World, Many Cultures, Fifth Ed., 2004

The Many Worlds of Literature, 1994, and Pearson Custom Publishing, 2000

First Person Singular, 1997

The New Millennium Reader, Third Ed., 2003

Reflections on Language, 1999

Every Day, Everywhere: Global Perspectives on Popular Culture, 2002

Past to Present: Ideas that Changed Our World, 2003

Discovering the Many Worlds of Literature, 2004

 
Chapters in Books:

“An Encounter with the Supernatural in W. B. Yeats’s ‘The Spirit Medium,’” Yeats and the Occult, Ed. George Mills Harper, 1975

“From Gaudette: A Retrospective,” Three Contemporary Poets, Thom Gunn, Ted Hughes, and R. S. Thomas: A Casebook, Ed. A. E. Dyson, 1990