Dr. Joshua Kotzin

Chair, Associate Professor of English and Jewish Studies Coordinator

Education

PhD, English, University of Iowa
MA, English, University of Iowa
BA, English, Stanford University


Interests

American Literature 1880-1945; Jewish-American Literature; Holocaust Literature; Literature and Memory


Selected Publications

Articles and Book Chapters

鈥淭he Machine in the Garden State:  Jewish Environmentalism in American Pastoral,鈥
Cercles: Review Pluridiscipline du Monde Anglophone, Issue 33 (2014): 92-102.
On-line Journal.  

鈥淭he Pilot Against America: Stamps, Airmail, and History in The Plot Against America,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Philip Roth Studies, Vol. 9.2 (Fall 2013): 45-55.

鈥淢aking Learning Work: Three Strategies for Introducing Composition Theory to
Undergraduates,鈥 co-authored with Angela Laflen and Joseph Zeppetello, Kansas English, Vol. 95.1 (2012): 108-128.

鈥溾橝gain in the Museum Mood鈥: Remembering the Museum in Henry James鈥檚 The
Ambassadors
,鈥 in The Exhibit in the Text: The Museological Practices of Literature, edited by Caroline Patey and Laura Scuriatti, Peter Lang, (2009): 69-83.

鈥淐ords of Memory: Charles Chesnutt Recites the History of Racial Injustice,鈥&苍产蝉辫;M/MLA, Vol. 41.2 (Fall 2008): 69-80.

Creative Nonfiction

鈥淩eading in Rome,鈥&苍产蝉辫;The Mickle Street Review, Rutgers University-Camden, 37.1 (Summer 2001). On-line Journal.

鈥淣umismatics,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Henry Street, Dalhousie University, 8.1 (1999): 79-83. Vol. 41.2 (Fall 2008): 69-80.


Selected Conference Presentations

鈥溾橝 spot so favorable鈥:  Immigrants and Commodities at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.鈥  South Atlantic MLA (SAMLA) Annual Convention.  Birmingham, AL, 4 November 2018.

鈥淭eaching in the Archive.鈥 SUNY Council on Writing Conference.  SUNY Farmingdale, 20 October 2018.

鈥淐ustomed Earth: The American Museum and the Movement of People and Things.鈥  Conference On Nearness, Order, and Things: Collecting and Material Culture 1400 to Today, sponsored by Northrop Frye Centre and Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto. Toronto, Canada, 8 April 2016. 

鈥淯rban Progress and Decay in William Dean Howells鈥檚 Late Nineteenth-Century Fiction.鈥  Northeast MLA (NEMLA) Annual Convention.  Hartford, CT, 18 March 2016.

鈥淓dith Wharton鈥檚 鈥楤ad Memory,鈥欌 MLA Convention, Boston, 5 January 2013.

鈥淎 Utopian Museum in William Dean Howells鈥檚 A Traveler From Altruria,鈥 Society for  Utopian Studies Conference, Penn State University, 22 October 2011.

鈥淭he Place of Writing in the Online Literature Class,鈥 Conference on 鈥淓nglish in the Digital Age,鈥 organized by the English Association of the Pennsylvania State Universities, Bloomsburg University, 15 October 2011. 

鈥淭he Museum in the Post-War American Jewish Imagination: The Example of Alfred Kazin,鈥 The New York Metro American Studies Association Summer Institute: Re-Visiting the Lower East Side, Hunter College, CUNY, 14-18 June 2010.

鈥淲illiam Dean Howells, American Literary Realism, and the Logic of Conservation,鈥 The Green Nineteenth Century, Nineteenth Century Studies Association Conference, Milwaukee, 27 March 2009.

鈥淪tamp Collecting and History in The Plot Against America,鈥 Panel on Philip Roth and the Visual Arts, American Literature Association, San Francisco, 24 May 2008.

鈥淚magining Realities: Teaching Composition Theory to Undergraduates,鈥 Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, 3 April 2008.

鈥淓dith Wharton鈥檚 Time-Blurred Substances:  Memory and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in The Age of Innocence,鈥 Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, Chicago, 11 November 2006.

鈥溾橝gain in the Museum Mood鈥:  Remembering the Museum in James鈥檚 The Ambassadors,鈥 European Society for the Study of English Conference, University of London, 31 August 2006.

Joshua Kotzin

Contact Information

Academic School

School of Liberal Arts

Office

Fontaine 320

Email

Joshua.Kotzin@Marist.edu

Phone

(845) 575-3000 ext. 2293