MA in Anglo-Irish Studies, University College Dublin, National University of Ireland;
PhD in English, State University of New York at Buffalo

I am widely interdisciplinary in my interests, but my background is rooted in Walt Whitman and the American free-verse and experimental poetry traditions that draw on his conception of the poet\'s twin responsibilities to his or her own individuality and to the civic society the poet must engage. These are the dual emphases I bring to my teaching, as well as to my advising duties with RIT\'s literary magazine, Signatures.

I taught at Emory University and Michigan State University, among other schools, before coming to RIT, where I?ve taught now for more than six years. My dissertation was on Walt Whitman and Frank Lloyd Wright, but I also did considerable work on Post-WWII poetry, studying with the late poets Robert Creeley and John C. Clarke at Buffalo, and before that with George Butterick at Storrs.

On Conesus, Foothills Publishing, 2005 (full-length Poetry Collection); "Poetry on the Internet: A Survey," Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries: http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/choice/bibliographic/sample/essay.htm; Poems, Jack Magazine; "Carl Rakosi." Encyclopedia of American Poetry, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001; "Democratic Space: The Ecstatic Geography of Walt Whitman and Frank Lloyd Wright." repr. Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 95. Gale, 2000; "Architects & Architecture," "The Arts and Crafts Movement," "Sadakichi Hartmann." Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia. Eds. Donald D. Kummings and J. R. LeMaster. Garland, 1998.