Faculty

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. American Literature, Syracuse University, 1990
• M.A. English, Villanova University, 1986
• B.S. Telecommunications, Syracuse University, 1982

TEACHING AREAS

• Professional and Technical Writing (PTW)
• Classical Rhetoric: Argument and Satire
• Academic Writing: Business and Science
• Composition Theory: Ethnic Semiotics

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS

Creative Nonfiction

• Pasquinades: Comments on the Eternal City, Past and Present, from Rome's Talking Statue. (Cayuga Lake Books, Fall 2023)
• Dead Reckoning: Transatlantic Passages on Europe and America, co-authored with Andrei Guruianu (SUNY Press, 2016)
• Bitter Greens: Essays on Food, Politics, and Ethnicity from the Imperial Kitchen. (SUNY Press, 2010)

Fiction

• Trinàcria: A Tale of Bourbon Sicily. (Guernica Editions, November 2013)
• After the Fair is Over. (Under contract at SUNY Press)

Scholarship

• Design Discourse: Composing and Revising the Professional and Technical Writing Program. Co-edited with David Franke and Alex Reid. 2nd ed. (Parlor Press/ WAC Clearinghouse, 2010)
• If I Were Boss: The Early Business Stories of Sinclair Lewis. (Southern Illinois University Press, 1997)
• American Gargoyles: Flannery O'Connor and the Medieval Grotesque. (Southern Illinois University Press, 1993)