Administrative Duties: Chair, English
Department
Co-Advisor of the college literary magazine.
Contact Information: 718-405-3301,
rob.jacklosky@mountsaintvincent.edu
Interests:
Dr. Jacklosky's scholarly and professional interests include Victorian studies, popular culture and creative writing. His fiction and creative non-fiction has appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/met/, Sonora Review and Sendero, and The Konundrum Literary Engine Review http://lit.konundrum.com/prose/jackr_christian1.php .
An essay of his, "A Version of Me on Network T.V.," won the WNYC Leonard Lopate Essay contest juded by Phillip Lopate (July 2007) http://www.wnyc.org/arts/articles/81266. His fiction has been named finalist in the William Faulkner/William Wisdom Fiction Competition (2007), the New Century Writers Award (2002/3), and the New York Stories Best Short Story competition (2000). He won the Quincy Guild Writers Award for best short story (2002). He's won a Norton Island Writers Residency (2008), a residency at the Vermont Studio Center, and has studied at Bread Loaf and Sewanee writers' conferences. His scholarly essays and reviews have appeared in the publications listed below.
"Someone to Watch Over Him” (essay) in Frank Sinatra: History, Identity, and Italian American Culture, edited by Stanislao G. Pugliese (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2004).
“ComPositioning Culture and Anarchy," (essay) in Teaching in the 21st-Century: Writing Pedagogies Across the Disciplines, ed. by Barbara Smith. (New York: Routledge, 1999)
"Thomas Beller's Seduction Theory" a book review in Studies in Short Fiction (34.3).
"Jonathan Wilson's Schoom," a book review in Studies in Short Fiction (34.3)
“Garry Wills’ St. Augustine,” a book review in Port, an on-line journal of the humanities.
"Junot Diaz's Drown" a book review in Studies in Short Fiction (34:2)
Courses Taught:
ENGL115 Writing for College
ENGL109 Literature: Visions and Values
ENGL217 Advanced Writing: Narrative
ENGL219 Advanced Writing:
Non-Fiction
ENGL300 Creative
Writing Fiction
ENGL307 The Novel
ENGL316 The English Tradition in Literature II
ENGL319 The Age of Satire
ENGL401 The Romantic
Age
ENGL403 Victorian Age
ENGL421 Topics: Comedy
ENGL450 Senior Seminar
Education:
Ph.D., English Literature, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J. (1993).
M.A., and B.A., English Literature, New York University, N.Y., N.Y. (1986 and 1988).
