Drew Ciccolo

Drew Ciccolo’s fiction has appeared in Tin House 66 and The Masters Review Vol. III. His nonfiction has appeared in the anthology Into Sanity (2019). He has an MFA in fiction and a PhD in American Studies, both from Rutgers-Newark, where he also taught for many years. He teaches first-year-writing and a senior seminar course on monsters at NJIT.

Ph.D.; Rutgers University-Newark; American Studies; 2022

M.F.A.; Rutgers University-Newark; Fiction; 2014

B.A.; Montclair State University; English; 2012

Fridays, 10am-12pm and by appt.

http://Forthcoming.

Teaching interests include first-year-writing, monster literature and media, the craft of fiction and narrative, American literature, “the American fantastic,” science fiction, and U.S. history.

Areas of research specialization include fiction and narrative, speculative fiction, the fantastic, “magical realism” (contentious term), U.S. cultural history, and philosophies of transcendence and immanence.