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
- 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
- “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 Macbeth. Journal 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.
- “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