• Director of First-Year Experience and Learning Communities, Long Island University, 2014 – present

• Chair, Department of English, Philosophy, and Foreign Languages, Long Island University, 2018 – present

• Chair, English Department, Long Island University, 2011 – 2018

• Associate Professor of English, Long Island University, 2013 – present

• Assistant Professor of English: Long Island University, 2007 – 2013

• Director, Institute of Education for Social Justice, 2008 – 2010

• Director, Long Island Center for Ethics, Long Island University, 2002 – 2008

• Adjunct Professor, Philosophy Department, Long Island University, 1999 – 2007

• Adjunct Professor, Department of Education, Adelphi University, 2006 – 2007

• Adjunct Professor, Department of Humanities and Languages, SUNY at Old Westbury, 1999 – 2000

• Post Doctoral Fellowship, Department of English, SUNY Stony Brook, 1998 – 1999

• Lecturer in Comparative Literature, Department of Comparative Literature, SUNY Stony Brook, 1998

• Adjunct Professor, English Department, Long Island University, 1992 – 1998

• Teaching Assistant, Department of Comparative Literature, SUNY Stony Brook, 1992 – 1996

At Webb:

• Ethics

Publications:

• “The View From Below: Solidarity and Struggle in Irish-American Working-Class Literature” Co-Authored with Margaret Hallissy in A Cambridge History of Irish Working Class Writing, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

• “Sealskins and Original Dimes: Exploitation, Class, and Commodity Fetishism in Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby.” Critique 54.1 (Fall 2013): 56-69.

• “Bodies in Pain: Reality, Realism, and the Subversion of Spectacle in James MacDonald’s Brides, Bombs, and Boardrooms.”  Bristol/Chicago: Intellect Press, 2011, 227-238.

• “Zombies of the World Unite: Class Struggle and Alienation in Land of the Dead.” in Philosophy and Horror, Ed. Thomas Fahy, Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2010, 121-136.

• “From Domestic Nightmares to the Nightmare of History: Uncanny Eruptions of Violence in King and Kubrick’s The Shining” in Philosophy and Horror, Ed. Thomas Fahy, Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2010, 161-178.

• “Commodity Fetishism, Patriarchal Repression, and Psychic Deprivation in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things” Mosaic 42.3 (Fall 2009): 57-74.

• “A Marxian Theory of the Subject: Commodity Fetishism, Autonomy, and Psychological Deprivation.” Rethinking Marxism 21.3 (Summer 2009): 420-435.

• “A Rage for Order: Fetishism. Self-Betrayal and Exploitation in The Secret Agent.”Conradiana 40.1 (Spring 2008): 1-24.

Presentations:

• Workshop-Theory to Practice. Pathways to the Majors: Fostering Interdisciplinary Collaboration between Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professional Schools. Creating a 21st-Century General Education AAC&U February 14-16, 2019 in San Francisco, CA.

• Poster Session “Mentoring matters: Feelings of belonging and academic self-efficacy in first year students with and without peer mentors” Creating a 21st-Century General Education AAC&U February 14-16, 2019 in San Francisco, CA.

• Modern Language Association

• David Newton Award for Excellence in Teaching, LIU Post, 2012

• Core Curriculum Coordinator, LIU Post, 2018 – present

• Chair, Core Curriculum Revision Committee, LIU Post, 2013 – 2018

• Co-chair, Outcomes Assessment Steering Committee, LIU Post, 2010 – 2018

• Co-Chair, Campus Life Assessment Committee, 2014 – 2018

• Director of College 101, LIU Post, 2012 – 2014

• Director, Institute of Education for Social Justice, LIU Post, 2008 – 2010

• Director, Long Island Center for Ethics, LIU Post, 2002 – 2008