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ARTHUR D. CASCIATO (Ph.D., University of Virginia), Director of Distinguished Fellowships and Post-graduate Guidance, came to Rutgers in fall 2007 from the University of Pennsylvania where he was adjunct associate professor of English and the founding Director of the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships. Before his appointment at Penn, he was an associate professor at Miami University of Ohio. He has also taught American literature and writing at Virginia Tech, the University of Virginia, and Northeastern University. He has co-edited two books, Waiting for Nothing and Other Writings by Tom Kromer, and Critical Essays on William Styron, as well as published articles on the novels of Theodore Dreiser, John Barth, and Pietro Di Donato. A poem about Di Donato by Dr.
Casciato called "Pete the Red" appeared recently in Italian Americana, and his most recent conference presentation was entitled "Everything I Know about Being Italian American, I Learned from Mad Magazine." He is also co-founder and first book review editor of the Oxford University Press journal American Literary History. During his seven-year tenure as director of fellowships at Penn, he advised three Rhodes Scholarship and five Marshall Scholarship winners. In his first year in New Brunswick, he helped his advisees achieve comparable success, bringing to Rutgers not only two Goldwater Scholarships and its first Whitaker Fellowship but also four Gates Cambridge Scholarships. Only Harvard had as many Gates Cambridge Scholars.
ARTHUR D. CASCIATO (Ph.D., University of Virginia), Director of Distinguished Fellowships and Post-graduate Guidance, came to Rutgers in fall 2007 from the University of Pennsylvania where he was adjunct associate professor of English and the founding Director of the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships. Before his appointment at Penn, he was an associate professor at Miami University of Ohio. He has also taught American literature and writing at Virginia Tech, the University of Virginia, and Northeastern University. He has co-edited two books, Waiting for Nothing and Other Writings by Tom Kromer, and Critical Essays on William Styron, as well as published articles on the novels of Theodore Dreiser, John Barth, and Pietro Di Donato. A poem about Di Donato by Dr.
Casciato called "Pete the Red" appeared recently in Italian Americana, and his most recent conference presentation was entitled "Everything I Know about Being Italian American, I Learned from Mad Magazine." He is also co-founder and first book review editor of the Oxford University Press journal American Literary History. During his seven-year tenure as director of fellowships at Penn, he advised three Rhodes Scholarship and five Marshall Scholarship winners. In his first year in New Brunswick, he helped his advisees achieve comparable success, bringing to Rutgers not only two Goldwater Scholarships and its first Whitaker Fellowship but also four Gates Cambridge Scholarships. Only Harvard had as many Gates Cambridge Scholars.
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