Patricia Ard, a former lawyer, teaches a wide range of literature courses as well as a course on American Visual Culture. She has two areas of scholarly interest: nineteenth century American and British literature and the history of the state of New
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Patricia Ard, a former lawyer, teaches a wide range of literature courses as well as a course on American Visual Culture. She has two areas of scholarly interest: nineteenth century American and British literature and the history of the state of New Jersey. She is coauthor of The Jews of New Jersey: A Pictorial History, and wrote the entry on the Jersey Shore in the New Jersey Encyclopedia. She also edited and wrote the introduction to the reissuance of Mary Peabody Mann's 1887 novel on African-Cuban slavery, Juanita. Her most recent publication is an article titled "Garbage in the Garden State: A Trash Museum Confronts New Jersey's Image," in The Public Historian.
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