This is my personal web page designed for my students and for those who are interested in the work of an ordinary college professor. I received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from SUNY-Buffalo and a B.A. in French Literature and Cultural Anthropology at Binghamton University. I have worked as an intern for the International Herald  Tribune in Paris, France, and I have written a book employing critical theory to analyze African American literature during the Harlem Renaissance. The book is entitled Poetry, Desire, and Fantasy in the Harlem Renaissance, and it was published by the University Presses of America in 2006. I also have written a book published by Edwin Mellen Press on Four Major Latin American Writers--Pablo Neruda, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, and Gabriel García Márquez. My dissertation, The Ethical Aporia, deals with the collapse of ethics in modern society and the role of poetics in the  autobiographical narratives of Maksim Gorky, Maya Angelou, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, and Nathan McCall. I also address globalization and the relevance of phenomenological analyses of identity in literature. View my dissertation here: dissertation