Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Sciences
Marc Manganaro is a university administrator, author, scholar, and former professor of English. He served at Rutgers University New Brunswick from 1989 to 2007, where he rose to the rank of tenured professor of English, and also served as Dean of Academic Affairs of Douglass College, the women’s college at Rutgers, from 2005-2007. For his efforts to preserve and enhance Douglass as a college for women, he was awarded The Douglass Medal by the Douglass Alumnae Association.
From 2007 to 2012 Manganaro served as Dean of Arts and Sciences at Gonzaga University, and from 2012 to 2017 he served as the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Loyola University New Orleans. Since 2018, when he was accepted into The Registry, he has served in various capacities as an interim Provost, Vice Provost, Dean, and Chair at Spring Hill College, Missouri Western State University, and Florida Polytechnic University.
Manganaro is an interdisciplinary scholar who has written three books on the relation between literature, critical theory, and anthropology that were published by Princeton University Press and Yale University Press, and his work has appeared in journals such as Public Culture, Modern Language Quarterly, and The Yale Journal of Criticism. He is also a published poet. Manganaro is a former recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and some years ago served as Editor-in-Chief of The Carolina Quarterly.
A native of Omaha, where he attended Catholic and Jesuit schools, he earned his B.A. from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, his M.A. in English from San Francisco State University, and his Ph.D. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He currently resides in New Orleans, and is the proud father of five children and, to date, four grandchildren.