About Me

My pedagogic focus lies in cultivating students to become close readers, critical thinkers, and dynamic writers who see themselves as practitioners within our field of study. Outside the classroom, my research centers around economic and political theories of the occult in Eastern Europe, focusing on marginalized groups who voluntarily adopt the identity of the witch. I am the author of Performing the Roma Witch: Stereotype, Mythology, and Profit (2019) and E-Witched: How an Ancient Identity Can Prepare Us for an Uncertain Future (2023). I am a professor at SUNY Geneseo.

The other front of my research investigates academically-induced adolescent aliteracy, and how this condition is enmeshed within education policy.  I am interested in developing and implementing systems that see automated writing platforms/AI as a means to foster rather than degrade literacy. My research focuses on how these technologies may help functionally illiterate students transition to print fluency.

Outside of life in academia, I own a publishing business and am a pilot.