Department of English

Rob Franciosi


Professor
Department of English
Language and Literature

164 Lake Huron Hall
(616) 331-3069
francior@gvsu.edu

Rob Franciosi

Courses
ENG 105 Literatures in English
ENG 205 Twentieth-Century American Drama
ENG 335 Literature of American Minorities
ENG 360 Studies in Non-Fiction
HNR 331: Culture and the Holocaust

Research Interests
My current research interests center on American cultural responses to the Holocaust. I am completing a study of John Hersey's epic novel of the Warsaw Ghetto, tentatively titled Imagining the Ghetto: Hersey's The Wall and American Holocaust Memory.  I have also been writing a series of autobiographical essays.

Recent Publications
“Too Much Information” Inside Higher Education, August 3, 2009.

“Where Words Fail,” Grand Valley Review (Winter 2008): 22-28.

"Designing The Wall: W.A. Dwiggins, George Salter, and the Challenge of Holocaust Memory, " Book History (2008)

 Shadowed Grounds: Walking Auschwitz-Birkenau, Grand Valley Magazine (Fall 2006):  20-24.

 Virtual Office Hours 24/7 Inside Higher Education, May 2, 2006.

Education
B.A., New York University
M.A., Ph.D., University of Iowa

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