I am a literature scholar and a dedicated, award-winning instructor with an outstanding record of success over nearly fifteen years teaching first-year composition, creative writing, literature, rhetoric, and more. I specialize in American literary journalism of the 20th century with active research projects studying the work of Hunter S. Thompson, Gonzo journalism, and the intersections of sportswriting and nationalism. I hold a Ph.D. in English from Marquette University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Chatham University.

I taught multiple iterations of first-year rhetoric & composition (& information literacy & library skills & research fundamentals & multimodal composition & more) courses at Marquette, where in 2015 I participated in a comprehensive overhaul of the First-Year English course design. The goal of the revision was to craft a course around a long-form, carefully-scaffolded, project-based model rather than a series of discrete, disconnected terminal assignments. Under the direction of program director Dr. Jenn Fishman, our small team drafted the overall arc, fleshed out the scaffolding and research waypoints, designed assignments, established the grading system, and discussed remediation and critical reflection elements.  I have also taught literature surveys, creative writing courses (in person, online, and asynchronous), and, most recently, a hybrid capstone course for English and Creative Arts students at Alverno College for the production of their campus literary journal. Please visit the Teaching page for more information and sample syllabi.

In 2022 I completed an annotated variorum of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, focusing on the material history of the text and the variances between (and the implications of) the differences between the two-part 1971 Rolling Stone article and the 1972 Random House novelization. I have chapters on infonationalism in the recent James Bond films (with Kathryn Hendrickson, 2023) and on the technical complexity & diminishing intelligibility of Vegas for a new critical volume on Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (ed. Kent Fielding, expected 2025), as well as a number of lectures and presentations in other forums.

I run marathons, enjoy long-distance cycling trips, and play the best sport in the world with the Milwaukee Hurling Club.

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