Associate Professor of English
Degrees
Doctor of Philosophy, University of New Hampshire
Master of Arts, Northeastern University
Bachelor of Arts, SUNY Oneonta
Office: Aquinas Hall, Room 12-G
Office Hours: M/W 1:30-2:30 pm, T/Th: 2:30-3:30
pm
Phone: 845-569-3363
Email: nancy.vonrosk@msmc.edu
Courses, Spring 2013
English 4141: The Jazz Age
English 1020: Forms of Literature
English 2090: Major American Authors Two
Bio
Professor Von Rosk came to Mount Saint Mary College in January
2005 after teaching at the University of New Hampshire where she
had earned her PhD.
Prior to becoming a college teacher, Professor Von Rosk taught
in a variety of institutions and programs at the secondary level
including The Casablanca American School in Morocco, and Project
Advance, a program for highly-motivated inner-city high school
students at Boston University. Her dissertation, "Private Lives and
Public Spectacles: The Urban Novel and Cultural Transformation,
1852-1925" examines the beginnings of urbanization and consumer
culture in America, and writers' responses to the cultural shifts
of their time.
While much of her expertise is in late nineteenth and early
twentieth-century American literature, Professor Von Rosk's
scholarly and teaching interests range widely. She has published on
contemporary postcolonial and Native American writers and has
taught Shakespeare and introductory writing courses here at Mount
Saint Mary College. Her work can be found in various scholarly
journals and anthologies including Studies in the Novel, An Inn
Near Kyoto: Writing by American Women Abroad, Prospects: An Annual
of American Cultural Studies, and Mosaic: A Journal for
the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature.
Most recently, Professor Von Rosk’s scholarship has focused on
women writers as well as the gothic imagination in art and
literature. Her most recent publication, “To Dance with the Hired
Girls”: Love, Labor and Longing in My Antonia” appears in Women
and Work: The Labors of Self Fashioning (Cambridge Scholars
Press, 2011). She is currently researching and writing on the ghost
stories of Edith Wharton.