Professor of English
Ph.D., English Literature, Rutgers University
M.A., and B.A., English Literature, New York University

• Victorian literature (Dickens, George Eliot, Matthew Arnold)
• Shakepeare
• Frank Sinatra and popular culture of the 1940s
• Creative writing and contemporary fiction

• ENGL115 Writing for College
• ENGL109 Literature: Visions and Values
• ENGL217 Advanced Writing: Narrative
• ENGL219 Advanced Writing: Non-Fiction
• ENGL300 Creative Writing Fiction
• ENGL307 The Novel
• ENGL316 The English Tradition in Literature II
• ENGL319 The Age of  Satire
• ENGL401 The Romantic Age
• ENGL403 Victorian Age
• ENGL421 Topics: Comedy
• ENGL450 Senior Seminar 

“The Boy with the Thorn in His Side,” The Literary Dilettantes (Winter 2011).

"Someone to Watch Over Him” (essay) in Frank Sinatra: History, Identity, and Italian American Culture, edited by Stanislao G. Pugliese (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2004).

“ComPositioning Culture and Anarchy," (essay) in Teaching in the 21st-Century: Writing Pedagogies Across the Disciplines, ed. by Barbara Smith. (New York: Routledge, 1999)

"Thomas Beller's Seduction Theory" a book review in Studies in Short Fiction (34.3).

"Jonathan Wilson's Schoom," a book review in Studies in Short Fiction (34.3)

“Garry Wills’ St. Augustine,” a book review in Port, an on-line journal of the humanities.

"Junot Diaz's Drown" a book review in Studies in Short Fiction (34:2)

Awards/Residencies
Winner: WNYC Leonard Lopate Essay contest juded by Phillip Lopate (July 2007) for his "A Version of Me on Network T.V."

Finalist: William Faulkner/William Wisdom Fiction Competition (2007), the New Century Writers Award (2002/3), and the New York Stories Best Short Story competition (2000).

Winner: Quincy Guild Writers Award for best short story (2002).

Winner: Norton Island Writers Residency (2008), a residency at the Vermont Studio Center, and has studied at Bread Loaf and Sewanee writers' conferences.