Professor of English

Education

Ph.D., Univ of N Carolina-Chapel Hill
M.A., Univ of N Carolina-Chapel Hill
B.A., Fordham University

Recent Awards and Achievements

• Co-editor with Pat Schnapp, R.S.M., “The Best American Catholic Short Stories” (2007)
• Numerous articles on British Romantic Literature, especially on Coleridge and Byron.
• Recent articles include “Is Harry Potter Christian?” Renascence, 2002.

Teaching Philosophy

I think of college teaching as an assisting and an enabling--that is, the student will learn in proportion to what he or she puts into the effort. Nowadays, the use of the Internet in the classroom, Power Points, and other technologies make teaching and research "easier" in many ways. They make instruction, including my own, better. But the ancient Christian and Platonic belief that in the end we find truth in ourselves or nowhere still holds true.