Rhoda Sirlin

Rhoda Sirlin is a Doctoral Lecturer in the Department of English at Queens College, CUNY. Her research focuses on the works of William Styron and contemporary American women playwrights. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses, including English 243, 326, 308, and graduate courses 638, 681, and 791. She has directed numerous MA theses on American drama.

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Her research interests span American literature, 20th-century narratives, and gender studies in dramatic writing. Key themes in her work include moral inequity, posthumous authorship, and the intersection of history and literature. Her articles and books explore Styron’s legacy and contemporary playwrights’ contributions to American drama.

Publications include Interviews With Contemporary American Women Playwrights (forthcoming 2023), Sophie’s Choice: A Contemporary Casebook (2007), and William Styron’s Sophie’s Choice Crime & Self-Punishment (1990). She has also authored an instructor’s manual for a short fiction anthology.

Her advising and grants activities are not detailed here, but she has extensive experience mentoring graduate and undergraduate students. No lab affiliations or teams are mentioned.