Brief Bio
MA in English | Rutgers University | May 2009 |
English Department Award for Highest Distinction in Literary Studies | High Pass Comprehensive Exam | 4.0 GPA
BA in English Education; BA in Bible | Philadelphia Biblical University | December 2005 |
Magna Cum Laude | Dean’s List | Crawford Scholarship | President’s Scholarship | Honors Program | 3.81 GPA
Current Employment
KPMG LLP | Senior Associate, Research | 2006-current
GENERATE Magazine | Senior Editor, Literary Arts | 2009-current
Nyack College | Adjunct Professor, English
Academic Work
Courses Tought
Spring 2010: College Writing 101ND, Nyack College, Manhattan Campus
Papers Presented at Conferences
“When is Marriage Really Divorce?: Marriage as a Little Church in Post-Christian Society”
MatterCon ’09 | Seminary of the Southwest | Sept. 17-19, 2009 | Austin, TX
“The Mad Farmer: Wendell Berry’s Agrarian Poetic”
Fordham Graduate English Conference | Fordham University | October 3-4, 2008 | New York, NY
“‘Their Fall Is Into Possessiveness’: Possessiveness, Imperialism, and Colonialism in Middle-Earth”
Tolkien Conference | University of Vermont | April 11-13, 2008 | Burlington, VT
Seminar Papers
“Descartes and Open Theism: Individual Reason, Libertarian Freedom, and God”
Literature of Revolutions and Counter-Revolutions. Professor: Jack Lynch.
“Metaphor and Metonymy in The Spoils of Poynton”
Henry James: Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Sexuality. Professor: Kristian Kahn.
“The Ecumenical Hamlet”
Shakespeare Seminar. Professor: Carol Heffernan.
“An Apocalypse of Nothing: L’Eclisse as Man-Made End”
“The Seventh Seal and the Silence of Religion”
Film Studies: Bergman and Antonioni. Professor: Benjamin Gray.
“Two Christianities in America: Christendom and Prophetic Justice in Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”
American Literature to 1900. Professor: Sterling Bland.
Lectures
“Becoming Imitators: Living a Life of Everyday Liturgy”
February 15, 2009.
The Well, Fiestersville, PA.
“Spiritual Disciplines”
Co-Lecturer. North Jersey Men’s Retreat, May 12-13, 2008.
Lake Champion, Port Jervis, NY.
Design Work
View my graphic design work for The Plant.
I also do web design using WordPress. See Everyday Liturgy, my blog.
General Writing
“Trail by Canning.” The Curator. December 2009.
“A Review: The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity.” GENERATE Magazine. October 2009.
“The Welcome Wagon: A Show and a Conversation” GENERATE Magazine. October 2009.
“Liturgy for the Common Cube.” Faith In the Workplace Newsletter. Christianity Today. January 2009.
“Liturgy in the Local Community: The Centrality of the Word.” Emergent Village. 27 December 2008.
“Finding Our Way Again: An Interview with Brian McLaren.” Everyday Journal 1.2 May 2008.
“Ten Spiritual Resolutions.” Burnside Writers Collective. 18 Feb. 2008.
“A Visual Liturgy: An Interview with Paul Soupiset.” Everyday Journal 1.1 3 Feb. 2008 <>
“Consumerism and Decay in Jeremiah.” Jesus Manifesto. 13 Dec. 2007.
