Dr. Janice M. Alberghene, Professor of English

Miller Hall ~ 26A  Ext. 3265  jalberghene@fsc.edu

Education:

B.A. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Magna Cum Laude

Ph.D. Brown University, English Literature

Graduate Courses Taught:

Multicultural Children�s Literature

Introduction to Graduate Research and Studies

Areas of Interest:

Children�s literature, young adult literature, women�s studies, detective fiction, autobiography, all of American literature (especially African-American literature and African-American literature for youth).

Professional Highlights:

            Chair, Department of English, Fitchburg State College, July 2004-2006

Charter Member of New Hampshire Humanities Council Board of Advisors,

1999-ongoing

Children�s Literature Association. Vice-President, 1990-91; President, 1991-92;

Co-Chair for Annual Conference, 1995.

Recipient, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Study Grant, 1995.

Little Women and the Feminist Imagination: Criticism, Controversy, Personal

Essays (with Beverly Clark of Wheaton College) Garland Press, 1999.

Modern Language Association. Executive Committee Member, 1986-90;

Committee Chair, 1989.

NEH Summer Study Fellowship for �Coming of Age in Selected African

American Literature.� Summer, 1995

Jan Alberghene serves on a number of editorial boards for journals in children�s literature and is a past president of the Children�s Literature Association, an international organization that focuses on children�s literature as a genre. In her own community, she is involved in programs for adult literacy that use children�s literature as a vehicle for group discussion. She also enjoys politics and has an active interest in issues concerning world peace and the child�s place in society.

Most of her �leisure� time is spent in family-centered activities. She studies yoga and comments wryly, �I like the result of gardening; I�m not so sure I enjoy gardening.� In addition to children�s and young adult fiction and autobiographies and detective fiction, which she reads for pleasure, she focuses on books written by Afro-American and women authors.

Jan Alberghene feels that as a major course of study, English offers the student a sense of personal satisfaction. The nature of the courses she teaches provides the student an opportunity to think and reflect and �become alive to the world.�