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Eric DaffronProfessor of Literature

Year Joined RCNJ: 2010

Contact Information

  • Phone: 201-684-7835
  • Email: edaffron@ramapo.edu
  • Office: B-138
  • Office Hours: On Sabbatical for 2025-2026 AY

Education:

  • B.A., University of Alabama
  • M.A., SUNY-Buffalo
  • Ph.D., SUNY-Buffalo

Teaching Interests:

  • Gothic Literature
  • Literary Theory
  • English Grammar

Research Interests:

  • Gothic Literature
  • Critical Theory
  • Sexuality Studies
  • Autotheory
  • Contemporary Moroccan Literature, Film, & Photography

Scholarly Activities:

  • “The Neutral and the Fragment: Queer Strategies of Resistance inSido Lansari’sLes Derniers Paradis.Short Film Studies, vol. 15, issue 2, Oct 2025, pp. 167-78..
  • “Dreaming in Blue: The Autopoetry of Inès Bouallou.”Screen Bodies Journal,vol. 10, issue 1, Jun 2025, pp. 13-26.screen.2025.100103.
  • “Fragments of an Intermittent Lover.” Reprinted inThe Hour, Irrevocable: AֲRetrospective, Indirect Books, 2025, pp. 154-63.
  • “Marrakech’s Medina: ‘A Simple Path of Reading.’”Cities, special issue ofPanorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature, issue 12, summer 2024,.
  • “Strolling the Slender Streets of Scorching Salé.”Moving across the Landscape in Search of an Idea, Air and Nothingness P, 2024, pp. 93-97.
  • “Hôtel La Fêlure: A Work of Fictocriticism.”Creativecritical Selves:Interconnection, Dialogue, Entanglement, Love, special issue ofTEXT: Journal ofWriting and Writing Courses, edited by Daniel Juckes and Stefanie Markidis, vol.28, special issue 73, 2024, pp. 1-18..
  • “Savories: Dieting with Roland Barthes One New York Spring.” Second installment. TheAutoEthnographer, vol. 4, issue 1, 2024,.
  • Translator. “Around Salé from Afar.” By Abdellah Taïa,Ezra: An Online Journal of Translation, vol. 18, no. 3, fall 2024,.
  • “Incidents in Marrakech and Beyond.”Impost: A Journal of Creative and CriticalWork, vol. 17, winter 2024, pp. 25-27,f.
  • “Fragments of an Intermittent Lover.”ֲ Literary Review, issue 2, 2023..
  • “Savories: Dieting with Roland Barthes One New York Spring.” First installment.TheAutoEthnographer, vol. 3, issue 3, 2023,savories-dieting-with-roland-barthes-one-new-york-spring/.
  • “Interstitial Living: Fragments towards an Ethics.” European Journal of Life Writing, vol. 11, 2022, pp. 32-64,U of Groningen P,.
  • “The Pianist’s Fingers: Fragments of Desire.”Synthesis: An Anglophone Journalof Comparative Literary Studies, no. 14, 2021, pp. 161-72.eJournals,.
  • “Re-mantling the Face: The Facial Politics of WWI-Era Portrait Masks.”BodyStudies Journal, vol. 3, no. 1, 2021, pp. 30-41..
  • “Handle with Care: The Biopolitics of Coronavirus-Prevention Guidelines.”Angles: New Perspectives on the Anglophone World, issue 12, 2021, pp. 1-16.Open Edition Journals, https:///10.4000/angles.3628.
  • “Manhandling the Body: A Foucauldian Approach.” From the Introduction toTheBody in Theory: Essays after Lacan and Foucault,edited with Becky McLaughlin, McFarland Publishers, 2021, pp. 12-18.
  • “Transatlantic Terror: James Hammond’s Circulating Library and the Minerva Press Gothic Novel.”Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture,1780-1840, issue 23, Summer 2020, pp. 109-23.Cardiff University Press,.
  • “Taking a Sagittal View: Reflecting on My Academic Career.”Specialists: Passions and Careers, edited by Cristina Artenie and Danielle Joy Davis, Universitas Press, 2017, pp. 27-29.
  • Far from Heaven: Three Lessons in Lacanian Desire.” POMPA, 2005, pp. 66-71.
  • “The Resistant Gap: Foucault, Lacan, and Resistance.” POMPA, 2003, pp. 34-40.
  • Romantic Doubles: Sex and Sympathy in British Gothic Literature, 1790-1830. AMS P, 2002.
  • “Double Trouble: The Self, the Social Order, and the Trouble with Sympathy in the Romantic and Post-modern Gothic.” Gothic Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2001, pp. 75-83.
  • “Child’s Play: A Short Publication and Critical History of Jane Austen’s Juvenilia.” A Companion to Jane Austen Studies, edited by Laura Cooner Lambdin and Robert Thomas Lambdin, Greenwood Press, 2000, pp. 191-97.
  • “(Dis)Orienting the Self: The Figure of the White European Man in Byron’s Oriental Tales and Travels.” Mapping Masculinities in Nineteenth-Century England, edited by William Brewer and Jay Losey, Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1999, pp. 69-90.
  • “Male Bonding: Sympathy and Shelley’s Frankenstein.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol. 21, 1999, pp. 413-33.
  • “‘Magnetical Sympathy’: Strategies of Power and Resistance in Godwin’s Caleb Williams.” Criticism, vol. 37, 1995, pp. 213-32.
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