About me: I am...
...a blogger.
I've been blogging since some time in 1999. I've had several different blogs (some semi-popular, most not), including the now-retired 3650 and a 12-inch and the group-blogged my iPod blog. The majority of my current blogging is on the site you are currently reading, Sample the Web. In the past, I have used numerous different blogging tools: Radio Userland, Manila, LiveJournal, Blogger, GreyMatter, and I even hand-rolled an early version of this site on my .mac space for a while by coding each new day into a template in pico. I recently switched over to WordPress and am enjoying it immensely. I am interested in both the technologies involved with blogging and the weblog format as an emergent space for communication, discussion, and interpretation....a published writer.
One of my critical articles, "Life and Text as Spectacle: Sacrificial Repetitions in Duras's The North China Lover," has recently been published in Literature Film Quarterly, over the past year I have contributed to several O'Reilly books, both as a freelance writer and as tech editor for iTunes & iPod Hacks, and since August 2004, I have been writing an article every week for AppleMatters.My poem, "oldblackman," was published in the 1996 edition of Sigma Tau Delta's International Literary publication, The Rectangle and in Illinois State University's 1997 edition of Druid's Cave. In college, "Unspoken", a short story and "life," a poem were both published in the 1994 edition of The Arrowhead, Mississippi College's literary magazine, and "The Argument," another short story, appeared in the 1995 edition of The Arrowhead.
...a student.
I've been entrenched in Academia for all of my adult life. I'm currently reading for and writing my dissertation in English at Fordham University. My areas of concentration are twentieth century prose, critical theory, film studies, and biblical studies. I received my Masters in English from Illinois State University in 1998, after passing my Comprehensive Exams with Distinction and writing a thesis on E.E. Cummings' currently out-of-print travelogue of Russia, EIMI. I double-majored in English and Art at Mississippi College, where I received a full academic scholarship, graduating in 1995....an educator.
I have taught a total of 18 college-level English courses, the most recent at Iona College in New Rochelle, where I am currently an Adjunct Professor of English and will be teaching another class in Spring 2005. In the past, I have taught at both Fordham University and Illinois State University. I also work full-time for Fordham University in the Department of Instructional Technology and Academic Computing as Lab Coordinator for Fordham's Westchester Campuses. In this capacity, I work with both students and professors to help facilitate the use of technology in an educational setting....an artist.
My mother is a painter, and, as a result, I have been doodling, sketching, painting, and sculpting my entire life. I took private art lessons growing up and one of my majors in college was fine art, where my studies were focused on drawing and sculpture. Soon I hope to have an ever-growing exhibit page of my artwork available on this site....proud to be an American by birth (albeit ashamed of our current President).
...proud to be a Southerner by the grace of God.
...proud to be a New Yorker by choice since 2000.
