Year Started

2004

Education

• PhD, English Literature, NYU
• MA, English Literature, NYU
• AB, English and French Literature, Princeton University

Teaching and Research Interests

• Henry James
• Joseph Conrad
• Pedagogy and Learning
• The Writing Process (and its relation to speech, influenced by the work of Peter Elbow)
• Improvisation
• Psychoanalysis and Literature

Biography

Melanie began her full-time teaching at the DeVry Institute of Technology, Long Island City (1999-2001) and at the Parsons School of Design, New School University (2002-2004). With Greg Zacharias, she co-edited Tracing Henry James (2008). She has published essays on both Shakespeare and Henry James and also wrote a review of Joseph Conrad’s A Secret Sharer and Other Stories (2015). Currently, with Reed Bonadonna, she is writing a proposal for an edition of S. L. A. Marshall’s The Armed Forces Officer (1950); they are also at work on a monograph placing the AFO at the intersection of humanities/general education and the military profession. Melanie is also pursuing other projects on James, Conrad and the writing process. “A Maritime Approach to Henry James” is one such work-in-progress.