Howard Marchitello, Ph.D.
Howard Marchitello was elected co-chair of the NJCH Board of Trustees in 2023. He is University Professor of English at Rutgers University-Camden. Previously dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Marchitello has served as a faculty member and in a variety of leadership positions since joining Rutgers-Camden in 2009.
Marchitello was chair of the Department of English from 2009 to 2012, associate dean for research and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from 2012 to 2016, senior associate dean for research and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from 2017 to 2018 and, most recently, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
As a professor, Marchitello is widely respected for his scholarly work on the relationship between the cultures of literature and science in the 16th and 17th centuries. He has authored and edited numerous influential volumes with Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press, among others.
He earned his Ph.D. at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
