Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz is an Assistant Professor of English at New Jersey City University. He has published work on 18th-century British literature, Milton’s Psalm translations, and Muriel Rukeyser’s construction of her Jewish identity, and has essays forthcoming on 18th-century war sermons, the strategies and failures of anti-war rhetoric, and Pope’s “Windsor Forest.” He won a Hopwood Award in poetry at the University of Michigan in 1996 and was a semi-finalist for the 92nd Street Y’s “Discovery”/The Nation Poetry competition in 2001. He has published poems in Judaism, Kerem, Controlled Burn, and Conservative Judaism, and is currently seeking publication for his manuscript of poetry, Fields South of Jericho. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, Elizabeth.
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