Overview
My academic background includes degrees from Georgetown (B.S. Foreign Service) and Duke (Ph.D. English). I have worked in government service in Washington, and as a writer and editor both within and outside academia. As Assistant Director of the Duke Graduate Liberal Studies program, I now split my time between administering academic aspects of the program and teaching interdisciplinary classes. My recent courses have focused on post-modern satire, on the forms of identity necessary for colonialism and postcolonialism, on the experience of embodiment, and on the lived experience of place. I live in the Eno Valley and enjoy hiking there whenever I can.