Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz is an Associate Professor of English at New Jersey City University, where he teaches a variety of courses on British and American literature, including creative and video-game writing, hip-hop, pandemic literature, and the literature of genocide and transitional justice. He has published articles on a variety of topics including: Milton's Psalm translations, georgic poetry, representations of war and peace in eighteenth-century sermons and verse, early modern Jewish and Anglican narratives of travel to the Holy Land, conceptions of sacred and secular space in English writing of the eighteenth century, festival and life cycle practices in eighteenth-century Europe and the Americas, and Art Spiegelman's Maus. He also co-edited Global Economies, Cultural Currencies of the Eighteenth Century (AMS Press, 2012). He is a reader for New American Press, and a contributing editor of The Scriblerian. He received a BRIO grant in 2021.
