Things have been very busy for me over the past six months on a number of levels, but on the academic side there’s been a good reason for the relative silence: in addition to the usual load of class preparation, grading and meetings, I’ve been working towards promotion. I’m happy to announce that the University […]

I just received a copy of A House for Mr. Biswas: Critical Perspectives, a new collection of critical essays from Pencraft International Press (you can find a good rundown of the book’s contents here).  I contributed “‘His Own Portion of the Earth’: The Rhetoric of Alienation and Separation in Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas” […]

Hi all,      I’m happy to report that thanks to the tremendous work of webmaster extraordinaire Kevin Grinberg, my website is fully back online after a database collapse, and we’ve taken the opportunity to make some overhauls to the look and feel of the site.  Those tweaks will continue over the next few weeks, but […]

Hi all,      Just a quick note to say that the website is going through a major restoration job after our original host had a massive outage; there’s a lot of work yet to be done, and until it is the website will look mostly, well, empty.  Database backups are on the way, and we […]

I’ve just uploaded a new item to my academic Media page, a panel I did at Worldcon in Chicago as part of the AboutSF program.  This was an interesting panel tying together my interests in teaching, writing, and fantasy and science fiction, and I’d love to hear what you think.  Otherwise, I’m spending the holidays […]

I got very lucky with presentations this semester; after two excellent ones for my creative writing course, which you can read about in my previous post on the subject, I managed to get New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson for a question and answer session with my fantasy fiction students.  Much of the conversation […]