2025–26 FAFSA Now Open!
Priority Deadline is March 1, 2025
Georgian Court University Athletics Logo
Days
Hours
Minutes
Skip Navigation
Anthony Brano

Dr. Anthony Brano

Associate Professor of English, Director of Writing Program and Writing Center

School:

School of Arts, Sciences, and Education

Department:

English

Office Location:

Library, 105

Office Hours:

Fall 2024
  • Tuesday and Thursday 12:00-2:00PM
  • Also available by appointment; check course syllabus for Zoom link

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., English, Fordham University
  • M.A., English, Southern Connecticut State University
  • B.A., summa cum laude, English, minor in Creative Writing, Southern Connecticut State University

Professional Experience

Georgian Court University
  • Associate Professor, 2022-present
  • Assistant Professor, 2015-2022
Courses Taught at GCU
  • EN106: Essentials of Academic Writing II
  • EN111: Academic Writing and Research I
  • EN112: Academic Writing and Research II
  • EN114: American Literature Since 1865
  • EN221: Honors Argument: Rhetoric and Research
  • EN250: The Power of Grammar
  • EN313: Medieval Literature
  • EN316: Seventeenth Century Literature
  • EN318: Romantic Literature
  • EN430: Senior Seminar II
  • GEN199: Discovering Self in the Big Universe

Research / Creativity Interest Area

  • Restoration and Eighteenth Century
  • English Political History
  • Early Modern Theatre
  • Book History
  • Composition and Rhetoric
Publications
  • “I Will Keepe None of There Bastardes”: The Violence of Scarcity in Ben Jonson’s Every Man Out of His Humour.” In Boundaries of Violence in Early Modern England. Eds. Samantha Dressel and Matthew Carter, Routledge, 2023. 55-75. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003319177-5
  • “Have Thy Black Deeds Then Turn’d Thee to a Devil?”: Black Legend Legacies and Anti-Dutch Rhetoric in William Davenant’s MacbethJournal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 22(3), 104-134. https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/927071
  • “Sherlock’s Irregulars: The Writing Center as Liminal Space” Response: The Journal of Popular and American Culture. November 2021. https://responsejournal.net/issue/feature/sherlock%E2%80%99s-irregulars-writing-center-liminal-space
  • “Illustrating and Performing Antony and Cleopatra in the Eighteenth Century.” In Canonising Shakespeare: Stationers and the Post-1640 Book Trade. Eds. Emma Depledge and Peter Kirwan, Cambridge UP, 2017. 63-78.
Conference Presentations
  • “Insidious Trauma and the Violence of Scarcity in Ben Jonson’s Every Man Out of His Humour.” Shakespeare Association of America. Virtual Conference, April 2021.
  • “Aphra Behn: Legal Eagle?” Shakespeare Association of America. Denver, CO, April 2020.
  • “Sherlock Re-Centered: How the Baker Street Irregulars (Writing Center Tutors) Occupy Liminal Space.” Annual Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association. Pittsburgh, PA, November 2019.
  • “Reflecting on Successes: The Meaningfulness of a Writing Center in Its Fourth Year.” The 35th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Writing Centers Association. Danbury, CT, March 2019.
  • “Mandating Writing Center Appointments for Skills-Development Students.” The 34th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Writing Centers Association. Worcester, MA, March 2018.
  • “Wartime Trauma and Religious Oppression in William Davenant’s 1674 Macbeth.” Shakespeare Association of America. New Orleans, LA, March 2016.
 

Additional Information

Please visit the writing center: https://georgian.mywconline.com

Vita

Share This Page