Teaching History
- City College of San Francisco: Professor of English
(Tenured '97), 1995-2001, 2003-
- City
College of San Francisco: English Lab and
Technology Coordinator, 2003-
- City College of San Francisco: Institutor of Cyberia,
2003-
- State University of New
York at Ulster: Assistant Professor of English, 2001-03
- Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, Ca: Creative
Writing Instructor, 1996
- University of Rhode Island: Teaching Fellow, 1991-95
- Mira Costa College, San Marcos, Ca: Creative Writing
Instructor, 1991
- Cuyamaca College, El Cajon, Ca: Literature and
Composition Instructor, 1990-99
- San Diego State University: Teaching Fellow, 1987-89
Educational Background
- Ph.D. in English, University of Rhode Island, 1995
- M.A. in Creative Writing, San Diego State
University, 1989
- B.A. in English, Buffalo State College, 1987
Doctoral Dissertation
Jews in Space: On
an American Road to Know Where
Director: Mary Cappello
Jews in Space
investigates and recontextualizes marginalized Jewish texts and the
invention of nationalism(s) in the Americas from colonization to the
national era.
Scholarly Publications
- "Using Writing Portfolios." Chapter 11 of Practical Suggestions for Teaching Real Essays with Readings
(2009-12).
- Guest Editor. "Noting the Nation: Words and Music
in Nineteenth-Century America." Special issue of American
Transcendental Quarterly (September 2002).
- Critical Introduction. "Noting the Nation:
Words and Music in Nineteenth-Century America." Special issue of American
Transcendental Quarterly (September 2002).
- Contributing Editor. The Heath Anthology of
American Literature Vol. 1 (1998, 3rd ed.). Headnote and
Instructor's Guide Entry for Mordecai Manuel Noah's She Would Be a
Soldier.
- "Pigging the Nation, Staging the Jew in M.M. Noah's
She Would Be a Soldier ." American Transcendental Quarterly
10.3 (Sept. '96): 201-17.
- "Dirty Tricks and Wordy Jokes: The Politics of
Recollection in A Farewell to Arms." The Hemingway Review
15.1 (Fall 1995): 54-71.
Academic
Participation
- Modern Marvels:
Jewish Adventures in the Graphic Novel, Project Scholar (ALA Grant),
CCSF Monthly series, 9/07-12/07
- Carnegie Foundation Resident. SPECC. April 2006.
Stanford University.
- Critical
Introduction: Cartoonist Ben Katchor's The Great Museum Cafeterias of
the Western World. Event co-organizer. SUNY Ulster
Visiting Artist
Series, Stone Ridge, NY, 10/03
- "What's at Stake? Jewish Captivity and
American Canonicity," Modern Language Association Convention,
Washington, DC, 12/00
- "The Language of Jazz," Moderator, Intersection for
the Arts, San Francisco, CA 2/00
- "Unfinished
Cardboard: Edges Around The Jew of New York," California American
Studies Association, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 4/99
- "Nervous
Rhythms: Jews, Jazz, and Narrative," Narrative: An International
Conference, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., 4/98
- "Presenting Nothing: Using Seinfeld in the
Classroom," California Humanities Association, San Francisco, CA, 3/98
- "'So
the Jews did Indianize, or the Indians do Judaize': Narrative
Undecidabilities and the Invention of America," California American
Studies Association, Berkeley, 5/97
- "Technology in the Urban Classroom: A College-wide
Effort," Technology in Education Conference and Exposition, San Jose,
4/97
- "Jazz and Literary Texts: 'It Don't Mean a Thing,'
or Does It?" Chair, Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago,
12/95
- "High Stakes: An Inquisition into the (Jewish)
American Frontier," Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston, 4/95
Published Fiction
- "Ruminating Trane." Vassar Review of Arts and
Letters 1.1 (November 1995)
- "Inside the Doughnut." Umbrella 29
(1990): 7+.
- "Metagalactic Harmonic Cosmosis Through Large
Glandular Organs." Pacific Review (Winter 1988): 10-13
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