Education:

B.A. Philosophy and English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1976

M.A. Philosophy, Purdue University, 1981

Ph.D’s in English and Philosophy, Purdue University, 1984

Academic Appointments:

1993-Present	Heritage College Professor of English and Philosophy Chair, Humanities
1991-3	University of Maryland Asian Division Guam Program Coordinator and Chair, English
1987-91	Kyorin University (Tokyo, Japan), Division of Foreign Languages and Literatures  Associate Professor, English
1984-7	University of Maryland Asian Division Core Faculty, English and Philosophy

Publications:

Publications include poetry as well as articles on assessment, writing program design, the phenomenology of skilled performance, and the works of writers and philosophers such as Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Kafka, Swift, Sterne, Wallace Stevens, Poe, Tolkien, and Ursula K. LeGuin.

Other Amusing Information:

International Chess Federation Master

Editor, Pahto’s Shadow