Curriculum Vitae

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A Little Bit about Me

I earned my Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition at Miami University in 2002 and have been working at Kutztown University since the fall of 2002. My research interests include radical pedagogy, global literacies, and autonomous education and social movements. I teach all levels of composition courses at Kutztown and am currently the Coordinator of Composition in the English Department.

I am currently working on several projects that he began in my dissertation, Literacies for the Long Haul: Radical Teaching, Social Movements, and Spaces of Hope in the Age of Neoliberal Globalization. In particular, I am looking at the ways literacy education can be brought into the service of global justice movements and other struggles for political and social change. My dissertation grew out of two concerns. First, since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 there has been an increasing reliance upon the language of markets and commodities to explain the role of education in a democratic culture. Issues of social collectivity, citizenship, and the commons are eroded in favor of “market choice” and private property. Second, many progressive, critical, and radical teachers tend to look to European theories of political theory and praxis for models of democratic education. Instead, I look to long traditions of anarchist, labor, and “folk” schools–such as the Modern Schools, Brookwood Labor College, and Highlander School for Social Research–as potentially more useful for a renewal of education for democracy in the United States.

I just completed a book co-authored with my friend and former colleague at George Washington University, Rachel Riedner. The book, Democracies to Come: Rhetorical Action, Neoliberalism, and Communities of Resistance is under contract with Lexington Books and will be published in May 2008. Rachel and Kevin will also be editing the book series Cultural Studies/Pedagogy/Activism, also with Lexington Books.

I have been an active part of our facuty union, APSCUF, since I arrived on campus in 2002. I was active in unions for many years as a member with SEIU in Syracuse, NY and as an organizer with UAW (now part of an SEIU organizing campaign) organizing graduate teaching assistants and adjunct faculty at the George Washington University. After several years working to transform our local union culture, I am currently a member of APSCUF-KU’s Executive Committee, a Delegate for APSCUF’s state-wide Legislative Assembly, and the Chair of ASPSCUF-KU’s Membership Committee.

I currently live in Allentown, PA with my wife Chris and dog Finnegan.