Postdoctoral Associate
Education
- PhD, English Education, Columbia University 2018
- MFA, Writing and Poetics, Naropa University – Jack Kerouac School 2002
- MST, LeMoyne College 2005
Courses Taught
- ENC2305: Analytical Writing and Thinking
- ENC2305: Magic & Imagination in Science
- ENC3254: Professional Writing in the Disciplines
- ENC5319: Scholarly Writing for Publication
Pedagogical Interests
The function of epistolary, autotheory and poetics in the formation of one’s writing practice; Using interruption, repetition and digression to access unconscious writerly habits.
Research Interests
The catalogue of shapes and movements through which attention gathers, disperses and sustains; The effects of meditation on the grammar of perception and consciousness;
Personal Interests
Filmmaking (16mm and Super 8mm); Performance (installation and expanded cinema); baseball and basketball.
Best Writing Advice
“The words I use mean more than I mean in using them.” Jacques Lacan; “To know that things are is not to know what they are, and to know that without what is to know otherness.” Lyn Hejinian;
Publications
- Surfeited By Surfaces: On Three Occasions of Sight – Boredom, Fascination, and the Uncanny” The Candidate Journal, (8), Screens, 91-106
- “Lacan : Kepler = Freud : Copernicus,” Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (pp. 311-347). V. Sinclair (Ed.), NY, NY: Trapart Books.
- “By Bird or Bridge: Paradox in the Sphere of Utility.” W. Welch (Ed.), DOUBLY MAD JOURNAL. (2017)
- “Island Earth: Bergman, Brahe and the Many Suns.” Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman: From Freud to Lacan and Beyond. V. Sinclair (Ed.) Routledge. (Forthcoming)
- “Interruption”. Scanlon, P. T. Bryant (Ed.), Encyclopedia (Vol. 2 F-K, pp. 286-288). New York, NY:Encyclomedia. (2010) …. And “Precision”. Scanlon, P. M. Mellis (Ed.), Encyclopedia (L-Z ed., Vol. 3). Troy NY:Studio Hudson. (2017)