Department of English

 

Elise Martucci is an Assistant Professor of the Westchester Community College English Department where she teaches courses in writing and literature. She earned a Ph.D. in English from Fordham University in 2005.  Her major areas of research and study are ecocriticism, postmodernism, and contemporary fiction, especially post-9/11 writings. 

In June of 2007 Routledge Press published her book, The Environmental Unconscious in the Fiction of Don DeLillo.  This book offers an ecocritical analysis of contemporary author Don DeLillo’s fiction, as well as a discussion of traditional American concepts of nature and the tensions between environmental and postmodernist thought.  She has also presented papers and written short articles on the environment in postmodern and contemporary literature by authors such as Margaret Atwood, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jane Smiley, and Dana Spiotta.  She is most interested in studying how contemporary fiction addresses the inter-play between culture and nature within these novels.    

Before joining the Westchester Community College English faculty in the fall of 2008, she taught writing and literature at Fordham University in the Bronx, and later at Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, Ct.