Degrees

• BA in English and History, State University of New York at Binghamton
• MA in English, State University of New York at Binghamton
• Ph.D. in English, State University of New York at Binghamton

Specializations

• Milton
• 16th and 17th century British literature
• Science Fiction

Interests

Arthur C. Clarke, Gregory Benford, Clark Ashton Smith, C.S. Lewis, Stephen Baxter

University/Program Connections

Secretary, APSCUF MU, 1997-2005

Community & Club Connections

• Veterans of Foreign Wars
• Milton Society of America
• Friends of Milton's Cottage
• Northeast Modern Language Association
• Baltimore Science Fiction Association
• United States Army: Special Troops, Combat Engineers, Second Infantry Division 1968-1970 (Honorably Discharged)

Passions & Distractions

• Science Fiction
• History of Astronomy
• Literature of Cosmology

Courses Taught

• English 292: Science Fiction
• English 316: Business Writing
• English 407: Milton

Sample Publications

• The Critical Response to John Milton's "Paradise Lost." Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1997.
• "Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama: Agent of Evolution." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. Vol. 9. No. 4 (1998), 336-344.
• "Milton's Paradise Regained." The Explicator. Vol. 56. No. 1 (1997), 14-17.