秘密研究所

Professor of Literature

Year Joined RCNJ: 2010

Contact Information

• Phone: 201-684-7835
• Email: edaffron@ramapo.edu
• Office: B-138
• Office Hours: On Sabbatical for 2025-2026 AY

Education:

• B.A., University of Alabama
• M.A., SUNY-Buffalo
• Ph.D., SUNY-Buffalo

Teaching Interests:

• Gothic Literature
• Literary Theory
• English Grammar

Research Interests:

• Gothic Literature
• Critical Theory
• Sexuality Studies
• Autotheory
• Contemporary Moroccan Literature, Film, & Photography

Scholarly Activities:

• 鈥淭he Neutral and the Fragment: Queer Strategies of Resistance in听Sido Lansari鈥檚听Les Derniers Paradis.听Short Film Studies, vol. 15, issue 2, Oct 2025, pp. 167-78.听.
• 鈥淒reaming in Blue: The Autopoetry of In猫s Bouallou.鈥澨�Screen Bodies Journal,听vol. 10, issue 1, Jun 2025, pp. 13-26.听听screen.2025.100103.
• 鈥淔ragments of an Intermittent Lover.鈥� Reprinted in听The Hour, Irrevocable: A听尝鈥椭蝉辫谤颈迟听Retrospective, Indirect Books, 2025, pp. 154-63.
• 鈥淢arrakech鈥檚 Medina: 鈥楢 Simple Path of Reading.鈥欌�澨�Cities, special issue of听Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature, issue 12, summer 2024,听.
• 鈥淪trolling the Slender Streets of Scorching Sal茅.鈥澨�Moving across the Landscape in Search of an Idea, Air and Nothingness P, 2024, pp. 93-97.
• 鈥淗么tel La F锚lure: A Work of Fictocriticism.鈥澨�Creativecritical Selves:听Interconnection, Dialogue, Entanglement, Love, special issue of听TEXT: Journal of听Writing and Writing Courses, edited by Daniel Juckes and Stefanie Markidis, vol.听28, special issue 73, 2024, pp. 1-18.听.
• 鈥淪avories: Dieting with Roland Barthes One New York Spring.鈥� Second installment. The听AutoEthnographer, vol. 4, issue 1, 2024,听.
• Translator. 鈥淎round Sal茅 from Afar.鈥� By Abdellah Ta茂a,听Ezra: An Online Journal of Translation, vol. 18, no. 3, fall 2024,听.
• 鈥淚ncidents in Marrakech and Beyond.鈥澨�Impost: A Journal of Creative and Critical听Work, vol. 17, winter 2024, pp. 25-27,听f.
• 鈥淔ragments of an Intermittent Lover.鈥澨�尝鈥椭蝉辫谤颈迟 Literary Review, issue 2, 2023.听.听听 听 听
• 鈥淪avories: Dieting with Roland Barthes One New York Spring.鈥� First installment.听The听AutoEthnographer, vol. 3, issue 3, 2023,听savories-dieting-with-roland-barthes-one-new-york-spring/.
• 鈥淚nterstitial Living: Fragments towards an Ethics.鈥� European Journal of Life Writing, vol. 11, 2022, pp. 32-64,听U of Groningen P,听.
• 鈥淭he Pianist鈥檚 Fingers: Fragments of Desire.鈥澨�Synthesis: An Anglophone Journal听of Comparative Literary Studies, no. 14, 2021, pp. 161-72.听eJournals,听.
• 鈥淩e-mantling the Face: The Facial Politics of WWI-Era Portrait Masks.鈥澨�Body听Studies Journal, vol. 3, no. 1, 2021, pp. 30-41.听.
• 鈥淗andle with Care: The Biopolitics of Coronavirus-Prevention Guidelines.鈥澨�Angles: New Perspectives on the Anglophone World, issue 12, 2021, pp. 1-16.听Open Edition Journals, https:///10.4000/angles.3628.
• 鈥淢anhandling the Body: A Foucauldian Approach.鈥� From the Introduction to听The听Body in Theory: Essays after Lacan and Foucault,听edited with Becky McLaughlin, McFarland Publishers, 2021, pp. 12-18.
• 鈥淭ransatlantic Terror: James Hammond鈥檚 Circulating Library and the Minerva Press Gothic Novel.鈥澨�Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture,听1780-1840, issue 23, Summer 2020, pp. 109-23.听Cardiff University Press,听.
• 鈥淭aking a Sagittal View: Reflecting on My Academic Career.鈥澨�Specialists: Passions and Careers, edited by Cristina Artenie and Danielle Joy Davis, Universitas Press, 2017, pp. 27-29.
• 鈥�Far from Heaven: Three Lessons in Lacanian Desire.鈥� POMPA, 2005, pp. 66-71.
• 鈥淭he Resistant Gap: Foucault, Lacan, and Resistance.鈥� POMPA, 2003, pp. 34-40.
• Romantic Doubles: Sex and Sympathy in British Gothic Literature, 1790-1830. AMS P, 2002.
• 鈥淒ouble Trouble: The Self, the Social Order, and the Trouble with Sympathy in the Romantic and Post-modern Gothic.鈥� Gothic Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2001, pp. 75-83.
• 鈥淐hild鈥檚 Play: A Short Publication and Critical History of Jane Austen鈥檚 Juvenilia.鈥� A Companion to Jane Austen Studies, edited by Laura Cooner Lambdin and Robert Thomas Lambdin, Greenwood Press, 2000, pp. 191-97.
• 鈥�(Dis)Orienting the Self: The Figure of the White European Man in Byron鈥檚 Oriental Tales and Travels.鈥� Mapping Masculinities in Nineteenth-Century England, edited by William Brewer and Jay Losey, Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1999, pp. 69-90.
• 鈥淢ale Bonding: Sympathy and Shelley鈥檚 Frankenstein.鈥� Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol. 21, 1999, pp. 413-33.
• 鈥溾�楳agnetical Sympathy鈥�: Strategies of Power and Resistance in Godwin鈥檚 Caleb Williams.鈥� Criticism, vol. 37, 1995, pp. 213-32.