Education
- M.A., Ph.D, University of Pennsylvania
- B.A., Harvard University
Courses Taught
- EN 101 The Art of Reading (Alpha)
- EN 201 Major Writers: English Literature
- EN 281 Introduction to Film
- EN 370 Modern British and American Fiction
- EN 377 History and Memory in 20th-Century British Literature
- EN 380 The History of Narrative Cinema
- EN 381 Fiction and Film
- EN 382 Film Animation
- EN 383 Ulysses
- EN 386 Topics in Film (recent topics: Irish cinema; screwball comedy)
- EN 409 James Joyce
- EN 409 Reading The Waste Land
- EN 409 Imagined Innocents: The Child Narrator in Fiction and Film
- EN 470 Metamorphosis: Transformation in Fiction and Film
- HN 280 The Modern World (Honors)
Publications
- “Farther Figures: Locating the Author Father in Coraline,” Mihaela Mihailova, ed., Coraline: A Closer Look at Studio LAIKA's Stop-Motion Witchcraft, Animation: Key Films/Filmmakers series London: Bloomsbury Press, 2021.
- “‘A Printing Machine for the Memory’: Stillness, Metamorphosis, and the Poiesis of Memory in Ruth Lingford’s Death and the Mother,” Animation and Memory, Maarten van Gageldonk and László Munteán, eds., London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2020.
- “Washed Up: Animating Literary Corpses in The Pearce Sisters”. In Annabelle Honess Roe (Ed.), Aardman Animations: Beyond Stop-Motion (pp. 119-38). London: Bloomsbury Academic (2020)
- Modernism, Ireland, and the Erotics of Memory (2002)
- "'Dear Miss Lonelyhearts': Voyeurism and the Spectacle of Human Suffering in Rear Window, "Clues: A Journal of Detection (January, 2013)
- "After the Race: Accelerator and the Cinematic Imagination of Urban Ireland," Eire-ireland: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies, Vol 45:1&2 (Spring/Summer 2010)
Professional Affiliations
- Modern Language Association
- Modernist Studies Association
- Society for Animation Studies
- Society for Cinema and Media Studies
- Society for Critical Exchange
Family
- Spouse: Alyssa Fieo, Managing Attorney, Maryland Disabilities Law Center
- Sons: Aidan, James, Nicholas
Other Interests
- Playing second base for the Indians of the LTRC Over 30 Baseball League, carpentry, furniture making, home renovation, cooking, piano, vocal music, Boston Red Sox
Inspirations
- James Joyce, Caroline Leaf, Lynda Barry, George Melies, Yuri Norstein, Alexander Petrov, Norman McLaren