Areas of Expertise

Experiential and immersive learning. Cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approaches to theme-driven humanities courses. Exploring place through literature and writing.

Teaching Interests

Active Learning strategies to create a dynamic, engaging classroom. Semiotics, particularly in the analysis and contextualizing of film and popular literature. Reader-response as an entry point and way of connecting to challenging texts. The power of myth and archetype as ciphers to cosmological/ metaphysical texts.

Research

As a writer, I explore intersections of past and present drawn from the margins and footnotes. My work also traces the cultural residue of a place through its art, literature, history, mythological/ religious context, and by walking the physical ground. Currently, I am working on a bildungsroman of General William Tecumseh Sherman as a boy named Cump raised in Lancaster, Ohio.

Representative Publications

• 2021 “Novel excerpt”. Provincetown Arts Magazine. Volume 36, 120-123. Excerpt from Good Morning, Dr. Du Bois, Winner, 2020 James Jones First Novel Fellowship for a Novel-in-Progress

Education

• BS Systems Engineering/Major: East Asian/Chinese Studies – USMA at West Point
• MA English (English, Film, Creative Writing) – UNC-Wilmington
• MFA Fiction (Short Story Collection) – Brooklyn College

Previous Appointments

Senior Adjunct Associate Professor – Hunter College, CUNY
Adjunct Full Professor – Long Island University, Brooklyn

Professional associations

AWP