Degrees
B.A. SUNY Oneonta
M.A. Northeastern University
Ph.D. University of New Hampshire
Biography
Dr. Von Rosk came to Mount Saint Mary College in January 2005 after teaching at the University of New Hampshire where she had earned her Ph.D. Prior to becoming a college teacher, Dr. Von Rosk taught in a variety of institutions and programs at the secondary level including The Casablanca American School in Morocco, and Project Advance, a program for highly-motivated inner-city high school students at Boston University. Her dissertation, Private Lives and Public Spectacles: The Urban Novel and Cultural Transformation, 1852-1925 examines the beginnings of urbanization and consumer culture in America, and writers' responses to the cultural shifts of their time. While much of her expertise is in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American literature, Dr. Von Rosk's scholarly and teaching interests range widely. She has published on contemporary postcolonial and Native American writers and has taught Shakespeare and introductory writing courses here at Mount Saint Mary College. Her work can be found in various scholarly journals and anthologies including Studies in the Novel, An Inn Near Kyoto: Writing by American Women Abroad, Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies, and Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature.