: About Me

I am a profesor of English, and teach at Albertus Magnus College. I have received my MA in English from the University of Connecticut, and will receive my PhD in May of 2009. My dissertation is "Narrative and Eschatology: Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Muriel Spark and the Theology of Narrative Endings."

Although my area of specialty is twentieth century British fiction, I have taught Shakespeare, literary theory, composition and general literature extensively. In 2004, I won the Aetna Teaching Award at the University of Connecticut. Currently, I am working on developing more innovative means to use technology for the blended online courses I teach at Albertus Magnus Collge. I am in the midst of writing the content for various instrucitonal courses in writing and literature.

I am also pursuing a career writing on various topics for an audience wider than academia. I have begun a couple of blogs concerning literature, politics and the arts, and I am beginning to submit content to sites and services like Helium.

I look forward to engaging the community here at Helium concerning writing.

My passion is ...

Reading, writing, teaching, fathering.

I know too much about ...

Literary theory and UFOs.

My parents always told me ...

To clean up my room.

My childhood ambition ...

To be a writer.

My favorite memory ...

Riding a train at night from Paris to Nice.

Why I write ...

The written word must be preserved.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Shakespeare, MSNBC, 1960s music.

My first job ...

Writing entries for an encyclopedia of American Colonialism.

My best moment ...

Winning the Aetna Award for teaching.

Arts & Humanities > William Shakespeare Is Shakespeare's writing incomprehensible?

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To say that Shakespeare's writing is incomprehensible is to say that the English language is incomprehensible. Shakespeare not only wrote his plays in the English language, he invented much of the English language as we know it today. At least one thousand words that we use currently Shakespeare invented. For instance, the word "lonely" appears for the first time in the English language in The Winter's Tale. A word that we use so readily to describe and understand a particularly poignant emotion of alienation came from Shakespeare's inventive genius. In fact, "invention" is a central term ...

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