University Lecturer

Phone: 973-596-5616

Email: elena.alexander@njit.edu

Department: Humanities

Room: 115 Cullimore Hall

Selected Publications/Honors:

—Footnotes: Six Choreographers Inscribe the Page. Author; editor (Routledge, 1998) (series: “Critical Voices in Art, Theory & Culture”).

—“Sic Transit,” Honorable Mention, The O. Henry Awards Prize Stories, Best of 1997.

—“How the Lurking,” winning poem, “The Arts Respond to 9-11,” juried by Creative Time, Poets & Writers, Van Alen Foundation, World Studio Foundation (2002).

—Anthologies published by Henry Holt, New York University Press, Penguin, Serpent’s Tail, etc. 

—Periodicals: American Letters & Commentary, BOMB, Brooklyn Rail, Hanging Loose, Minnesota Review, Rattapallax, etc.

Work in translation: Album, Serbo-Croatian (Bosnia-Herzegovina); Mentor, Slovenian (Slovenia).

Courses taught:

Humanities 101, 102, 102-Honors, Philosophy 334: Engineering Ethics, LIT 355: Poetry.

Research interests:

Literature and poetry, national and international.

Nonfiction literature.

Philosophy, Western and Eastern (specifically, the elision between Ethics and everything else).