Stephen Hahn is Professor of English and Associate Provost at the William Paterson University of New Jersey. He received a B.A. in English (magna cum laude) and philosophy (rite) from Amherst College in 1975; an M.A. in English for Rutgers University in 1979; and a Ph.D. in English from Rutgers in 1984. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1974. He contributed two volumes to the Wadsworth Philosophers Series, ON THOREAU (2000) and ON DERRIDA (2002). He is the editor, with Arthur F. Kinney, of the volume APPROACHES TO TEACHING FAULKNER'S THE SOUND AND THE FURY (MLA, 1996); and, with Robert W. Hamblin, of the volume TEACHING FAULKNER: APPROACHES AND METHODS (Greenwood, 2001); and numerous essays on modern writers, the teaching of literature and writing, and philosophical themes in literature.