I am a teacher and writer from New Jersey who now finds himself living and working in Atlanta. I currently hold a position as a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech, where I teach a course called Technical Communication Practices. Having just completed my Ph.D. in English, I am now on the job market, searching for a tenure-track position somewhere on the East Coast.

Life has taken me down some interesting roads since I graduated from The College of New Jersey in 1987. I have worked as a freelance journalist and a professional writer and editor. I have also taught on the high school and college level, earned advanced degrees in English and Jewish-Christian Studies, and worked to promote various community service and social justice programs. Along the way, I have cultivated high-level skills as a writer and a teacher.

I am also an enthusiastic guitar player, a Catholic with Catholic Worker sympathies, and an Epicurean in both kitchen and core philosophy. My current scholarly research interests include literary history, anthologies of American literature, slave literature, nineteenth-century American utopianism, and cosmopolitanism.

Education

• Ph.D. English, Georgia State University - 2008
• M.A. Jewish-Christian Studies, Seton Hall University - 1993
• B.A. English/minor in journalism, College of New Jersey - 1987