Degrees

Ph.D. Comparative Literature, UNC-Chapel Hill

B.S. Mathematical Science/Computer Science, UNC-Chapel Hill

Specializations

• Film Studies
• Critical Theory
• Narrative Studies

Interests

• Author: Faulkner
• Theorists: Foucault, Bakhtin, Arendt
• Directors: Polanski, Welles

University/Program Connections

• Chair, Humanities Film Series
• University Wide Advisement Council
• The Honors College
• The Faculty Senate Ad Hoc Honor Code Committee

Community and Club Connections

• The Millersville University Ciné Club Advisor
  
• The Millersville University English Club Advisor
• Humanities Film Festival, Chair
• Lititz Library Reel Talk For Everyone Series, Programming and Presentations
• York Capitol, Advisory Board
• Odyssey of the Mind, Regional Board, 2009 Tournament Director

Passions & Distractions

Skiing, my daughter Page

Courses Taught

• English 110: English Composition
• English 240: Introduction to Film
• English 311: Advanced Composition
• English 347: Studies of Ethnicity in Cinema
• English 451/651: Literary Theory and Criticism
• English 481: History of Film
• English 482: Film and American Society
• English 483: Politics, Film, and Electronic Media
• English 484: Brave New Worlds: Exploring Technology through Film
• EDW 736: The Film Studies Workshop (for educators)

Sample Publications

“The Marx Brothers” and "Sidney Lumet." Encyclopedia of Jewish American Popular Culture.  Ed. Jack Fischel with Susan Ortmann. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. Scheduled December, 2008.
 
“Reading the Revolution and Writing the Wrongs: Exploring Roya Hakakian's Passion for Possibility.” Rapportage: Literary Essays, Interviews, and Profiles: 50-54. Pennsylvania: Lancaster Literary Guild. January, 2006.

“Unstitching Cultural Sutures: Medicine and Media.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 23(5): 440-443. Review Article.  London, England: Taylor and Francis, 2006.

"Ironic Empathy in Cronenberg's Crash: The Psychodynamics of Postmodern Displacement from a Tenuous Reality." Quarterly Review of Film and Video 17(3): 187-209. Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000.