Patricia Ard

Professor of Literature

Year Joined RCNJ: 1997

Contact Information

• Phone: (201) 684-7280
• Email: pard@ramapo.edu
• Office: B-137
• Office Hours: E-mail for Appointment
• Department Website

Education:

• B.A., Douglass College; Rutgers University
• J.D., Seton Hall University School of Law
• Ph.D., Rutgers University

Courses Offered:

• Critical Reading & Writing
• Readings in the Humanities
• Survey of British Literature II
• Children’s and Young Adult Literature;
• Methods of Literary Study
• “Nineteenth Century Transatlantic Poetry”
• Majors Authors: Jane Austen
• Senior Seminar: American Literature and Law

Teaching Interests:

• Nineteenth Century American and British literature; composition; visual culture; women writers; popular culture

Research Interests:

• Generally in American and British literature and culture, and material culture.

Scholarly Activity:

Book Review

• Wet Britches and Muddy Boots: A History of Travel in Victorian America, by John white Jr. Nineteenth Century Prose (Fall 2014).

Articles

• “Dashing in Persuasion: The Effects of a Pause.” Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal. No. 40. 2018. 230-237.

• “George Austen’s Absence from Family Life: The Shifting Biographical Response.” Winter, 2013. The Jane Austen Journal: Persuasions Online.

• “Betrayal: Jane Austen’s Imaginative Use of America.” Persuasions Online (Winter 2012)
• “Austen in Jeopardy.” Jane Austen Society of North America Newsletter. Summer, 2010.