I'm a Professor of English at Kutztown University, where I also currently serve as Composition Coordinator.
I received my Ph.D. in Composition from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2009.
My research interests include contingency studies, labor activism, pedagogy, literacy studies, and writing program administration.
I serve as editor of Forum: Issues About Part-Time and Contingent Faculty through January 2021. The anthology Contingency, Exploitation, & Solidarity: Labor in Action in English Composition, which I co-edited with Seth Kahn and Bill Lalicker, was published in The WAC Clearinghouse Perspectives on Writing Series. I'm happy to say it won the CWPA Best Book Award!
I've co-authored "The Indianapolis Resolution: Responding to 21st Century Exigencies / Political Economies of Composition Labor," appearing in the September 2016 edition of CCC 2016, with Anicca Cox, Tim Dougherty, Seth Kahn and Michelle LaFrance.
I love teaching more than any other bit of my job. First year composition is my favorite. I know. I'm learning and teaching more and more about digital composition and literacy every semester.
Raised by a union organizer, I'm a proud member of the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties [APSCUF]. I also chair its Adjunct Faculty Committee. I'm not an adjunct or visiting prof, but I was for many years. As tenured faculty, I believe it's an ethical imperative to fight for the working and learning environment we all deserve.
Sixty percent of my blood is coffee. I know all of the dialogue from Star Wars: A New Hope and the names of every episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. My other car is a T.A.R.D.I.S. I enjoy diagramming sentences.
I received my Ph.D. in Composition from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2009.
My research interests include contingency studies, labor activism, pedagogy, literacy studies, and writing program administration.
I serve as editor of Forum: Issues About Part-Time and Contingent Faculty through January 2021. The anthology Contingency, Exploitation, & Solidarity: Labor in Action in English Composition, which I co-edited with Seth Kahn and Bill Lalicker, was published in The WAC Clearinghouse Perspectives on Writing Series. I'm happy to say it won the CWPA Best Book Award!
I've co-authored "The Indianapolis Resolution: Responding to 21st Century Exigencies / Political Economies of Composition Labor," appearing in the September 2016 edition of CCC 2016, with Anicca Cox, Tim Dougherty, Seth Kahn and Michelle LaFrance.
I love teaching more than any other bit of my job. First year composition is my favorite. I know. I'm learning and teaching more and more about digital composition and literacy every semester.
Raised by a union organizer, I'm a proud member of the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties [APSCUF]. I also chair its Adjunct Faculty Committee. I'm not an adjunct or visiting prof, but I was for many years. As tenured faculty, I believe it's an ethical imperative to fight for the working and learning environment we all deserve.
Sixty percent of my blood is coffee. I know all of the dialogue from Star Wars: A New Hope and the names of every episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. My other car is a T.A.R.D.I.S. I enjoy diagramming sentences.
