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EDUCATION
1988, Ph.D., English, State University of New York at Buffalo
Doctoral Dissertation:
Conclusion of the Foregoing: James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and Flann O'Brien
1985, M.A., English, State University of New York at Buffalo
1983, M.F.A., Creative Writing, American University
Thesis:
Writing the First Sentence, a collection of short stories
1980, B.A., Theater and Writing Arts, Oswego State University
EMPLOYMENT
July 2003-present, Copy Director, Haggin Marketing, Sausalito, CA
October 2000-July 2003, Copy Director, Frontgate, West Chester, OH
May 1997-present, freelance writer
October 1999-September 2000, Director of Writing Services, govWorks.com, NY, NY
September 1996-September 2000, Adjunct Professor, New York University
May 1995-May 1997, Copy Director, Advertising Department, Bloomingdale’s Department Stores, NY, NY
June 1994-May 1995, Senior Copywriter, Avanti Press, Miami, FL
November 1993-June 1994, Copywriter, Avanti Press
August 1991-August 1993, Lecturer in English, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
September 1989-June 1991, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, MN
August 1987-May 1989, Visiting Assistant Professor, Washington College,
Chestertown, MD
August 1983-July 1987, Graduate Teaching Fellow, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
COURSES TAUGHT
at New York University:
Samuel Beckett: on the Page and on the Stage
Highlights of Modern Fiction
Literature and the Desire for Escape
Modern Drama: Theater and the Human Condition
The Short Form: an Introduction to Classic Short Fiction
at University of Miami:
English Composition II
World Literature I
World Literature II
British Literature II
American Literature II
Introduction to Creative Writing
Modern British Literature
Major American Novelists
at University of Minnesota:
Introduction to Literature (Honors)
Techniques of Literary Study
British Literature 1914-1939
British Literature 1939-1975
Modern Drama 1880-1920
Modern Drama 1920-Present
Contemporary British Drama
Experimental Fiction since 1960
James Joyce's Ulysses, Senior Seminar (Honors)
Literature of Escape, Senior Seminar
Modern English Novel, Graduate/Undergraduate Seminar
Reading as Writers: Experimental Fiction Workshop
Samuel Beckett and Flann O'Brien, Graduate Seminar
at Washington College:
Forms of Literature and Composition
Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction
Modern Drama
Modern British Literature
Yeats and Joyce, Senior Seminar
Modern Drama, Graduate Seminar
at SUNY Buffalo:
Expository Writing
Irish Literary Renaissance
PUBLICATIONS
“‘Arranged By Wise Hands’: Flann O'Brien's Metafictions,” Conjuring Complexities: Essays on Flann O'Brien, edited by Anne Clune and Teresa Hurson, The Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen's University of Belfast, 1997, 57-60
“The Late Bus,” 1st prize winner for short fiction, National Writers Association 1993-1994 Writing Competition, Crescendo, III, 1995
“An Atomy of the Novel: Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds,” Twentieth Century Literature, 39, 2 (Summer 1993), 208-229
“The Repast,” short fiction, fathoms, 2,2 (Spring 1993), 30-34
“On Shifting Ground,” catalog essay for gallery installation Shifting
Ground, South Florida Composers Alliance Intermix Festival, August 1992
“‘For this relief much thanks’: Leopold Bloom and Beckett’s Use of
Allusion,” Re: Joyce’n Beckett, edited by Phyllis Carey and Edward
Jewinski, Fordham University Press, 1991, 43-50
“Stay Tuned,” (excerpt), novella, Innovations, 1, 1991, 90
“Fear of Meaning: Beckett in Performance,” Romance Studies, 11
(Winter 1987), 7-13
“James Joyce and the Decline of Flann O’Brien, Éire Ireland, 22, 2
(Summer 1987), 153-160
“A Bookish Everyman,” review of Myles Away From Dublin by Flann
O’Brien, Irish Literary Supplement, 5, 1 (Spring 1986), 34
CONFERENCE PAPERS (a selected list)
“Ulysses as a Temperance Novel,” Miami James Joyce Symposium, Coral Gables, FL, February 1992
“Question Authority: Reading the Ending(s) of Flann O’Brien’s
At Swim-Two-Birds,” NEMLA, Hartford, CT, April 1991
“One Hat for Two Heads: The Search for Self in Beckett’s
Ohio Impromptu,” Illinois State University Symposium: “A Beckett
Afternoon: Directors and ‘Crritics,’” Normal, IL, October 1991
“Narrative Dislocation in Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls,” NEMLA,
Toronto, April 1990
“James Joyce, Flann O’Brien and the God of Creation,” James Joyce
Conference, Philadelphia, June 1989
“Syntax Errors: Reflexivity in Christine Brooke-Rose’s Xorandor,” NEMLA,
Providence, RI, April 1988
“‘Cut short in the midst of my days’: Coitus Interruptus and theatricality in
Tristram Shandy,” NEMLA, Boston, April 1987
“Fear of Meaning: Beckett in Performance,” Beckett at Eighty Conference,
Stirling, Scotland, August 1986
“Fail Better: Joyce, Beckett and Flann O’Brien” Tenth International James
Joyce Symposium, Copenhagen, June 1986
“Arranged by Wise Hands: Flann O’Brien’s Metafictions,” Flann O’Brien
International Symposium, Dublin, April 1986
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Interview with Martin Amis, “Talking Sense,” KUOM 770AM, University
Public Radio, Minneapolis, May 1991
Interview with T. Coraghessan Boyle, “Talking Sense,” KUOM 770AM,
University Public Radio, Minneapolis, October 1990
Obituary and discussion of Samuel Beckett, “Talking Sense,” KUOM
770AM, University Public Radio, Minneapolis, January 1990
Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds, lecture and discussion, Celtic Studies
Research Group, Minneapolis, November 1989
Panel chair, “Joyce and Flann O’Brien,” James Joyce Conference,
Philadelphia, June 1989
Section Chair, Contemporary Irish Literature, NEMLA, Providence, RI,
April 1988
MFA Alumni Fiction Reading, American University, Washington, DC,
November 1987
Sophie Kerr Endowment Committee, Washington College, 1987-1989
Junior Faculty Recruitment Committee, SUNY Buffalo, 1983-1987
Composition Committee, SUNY Buffalo, 1984-1987
Admissions & Fellowships Committee, SUNY Buffalo, 1983-1985
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