I have degrees in Ancient [Greek] (A.B.,Berkeley), Rhetoric (M.A., Berkeley), [Composition], [Rhetoric] (Ph.D. UW-Madison). My dissertation was on the early 20th Century, [Russian] artist, Kazimir Malevich. I write [essays].
– “Thucydides and the Powell Doctrine” (Raritan, Summer, 2004)
– “Cringing About Culture: The City Looks at the Provinces” (Salmagundi, 2008)
– “Better Practices in Mourning” (Southwest Review, 2009. Named a “Notable” in Best American Essays 2010)
– “Not Against Irony” (Hotel Amerikia, 2011)
– “On Hearing Hans Joas Lecture About the Soul” (New Letters, 2011)
– “Differences: Sade, Austen, and the Biblia Hebraica On Marriage” (Salmagundi, forthcoming)