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 and 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

Astronomy

History of Cosmology

Courses Taught

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

Sample Publication

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.