He received his Ph.D. from Miami University in Oxford, OH in 2003, and a B.A. in English from California State University, Northridge, in 1997. In addition to his responsibilities as Chair, he regularly teaches upper-division English courses as well as courses in Integrative Studies and for the Whitney Young School of Honors. He has a passion for, some would say an obsession with, Lord Byron, on whom he has published numerous book and journal articles as well as an extensive annotated bibliography of Byron in Fiction on Romantic Circles. He is in the last stages of work on his book, tentatively entitled Fictional Byron, which explores the ways that Byron has been fictionalized by numerous authors, poets, and directors, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.