Education

Ph.D., The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., 1992.
        Comparative Literature: Latin, Greek, and English. 

        Diss: Musae Americanae: The Neo-Latin Poetry of Colonial and Revolutionary America.

M.A., Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1985.  Humanities.  Thesis: "A Dumezilian Reading of the Doloneia."

H.A.B., Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1981.  Honors Program: Classics/English double major.

Instructional Experience (selected)

Central Connecticut State University (New Britain, CT)

        2002-present, Professor

        1997-2002, Associate Professor (tenured 1998)

        1992-1997, Assistant Professor

Department of English:

    Studies in Literature: Anne Bradstreet (Eng 530)

    American Literature Seminar: The Connecticut Wits (Eng 500)

    Getting Away From It All: Working the Literary Landscape (Eng 488)

    Nathaniel Hawthorne: I'll Take Romance (Eng 449)

    Cotton Mather: Puritan Past/American Future (Eng 448)

    Greek and Roman Literature (Eng 362)

    Early American Literature (Eng 340)

    Studies in Literature: The Literary Sinatra (Eng 288)

    American Literature I (Eng 210)

    Freshman Composition: First Year Experience (Eng 110)

Honors Program:

    Western Culture II: Middle Ages to Enlightenment (Hon 210)

    Western Culture I: Ancient Greece and Rome (Hon 110)

Department of Classical and Modern Languages:

    Readings in Latin Poetry (ML 400)

University Service (selected)

2003-Present Interim Chairman, English Department

2000-Present Faculty Liaison, Beecher Hall

1997-Present Member, CCSU Student Media Board

1999-2001    Chairman, Local Host Committee, NEMLA 2001

1998-2003    Assistant Chairman, English Department

1997-2000    Organizer, Ex Libris Discussion Series

1996-2000    Member, Advisory Council for the Center of Multicultural Research and Education, CCSU

1996-1998    Co-editor, Learning is Central: Newsletter of the CCSU Teaching Excellence Forum

                        Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Portfolios

                        Administrator, Honors Program Speakers' Fund

1995-1999    Faculty Mentor,  First Year Experience Program

1994-Present Faculty Advisor, WFCS 107.7 FM New Britain
                                   
1994-1996    Member, University Planning Committee

1994-1996    Member, CCSU/Hartford  Ballet Task Force
 

Publications

Books

As editor. Sinatra . . . but buddy, I'm a kind of poem. Washington, D.C.: Entasis P, 2008.

A Storied Singer: Frank Sinatra as Literary Conceit.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.

Articles (selected)

"Towards a New World Senatus Doctorum: The Liminary Verse of the Magnalia Christi Americana."  Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Bariensis: Proceedings from the Ninth International Congress at Bari.   Ed. by Rhoda Schnur, et al.  Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1998 .

"The Composition of Celebrity: Sinatra as Text in the Liner Notes of Stan Cornyn."  Frank Sinatra and Popular Culture: Essays on an American Icon. Ed. Leonard Mustazza.  Westport, CT: Praeger Press, 1998.  69-82.

"Voyage to Maryland: Relatio itineris in Marylandiam - A Review." Neo-Latin News 45.1-2 (1997): 33-34.

"The Seeds of Puritan Literalism": The Reverend Hooker as Aeneas in a Pair of Early American Neo-Latin Elegies."  Proceedings of the Northeast Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature. Pleasantville, NY: Pace University, 1995.

"Nail-Gnawing in a New World Landscape: From Allusion to Disillusion in John Beveridge's Epistolae familiares." Connecticut Review 18.1 (1996): 89-101.

"' Off a Strange, Uncoasted Strand': Navigating the Ship of State through Freneau's'Hurricane'."  Classical and Modern Literature: A Quarterly 15 (1995): 357-366.

"The Alexandrian Fracastoro: Structure and Meaning in the Myth of Syphilus." Renaissance and Reformation 14 (1990): 261-270.

Conference Papers and Presentations (selected)

"Never Negotiate with a River." "'A Curriculum, a Vigor, a Local Abstraction': The Literary Crosscurrents of the Connecticut River Valley: A Symposium." The Old State House, Hartford, CT, 1 April 2001.

Burning with an Even Greater Hunger: Interlocution, Irresolution, and American Neo-Latin Periodical Verse.  American Philological Association Annual Conference, Dallas, TX, 28 December 1999.

There'll be no Future without Him: The Voice versus the Emerging Monster in Playing Sinatra. Frank Sinatra: The Man, The Music, The Legend.  Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, 12-14 November 1998.

Reconfiguring the Stars: Translation and Neo-Latin Emulation in Philip Freneau's "Pyramid of the Fifteen American States". Annual Conference of the Northeast Modern Language Association.  Baltimore, MD.  18 April, 1998.

Neither the Honey nor the BeeÕ: Poetry and the Community of Women in Sappho and Adrienne Rich.  Women's History Month Lecture Series, Women's Studies Program, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, 4 March 1998.

From Tearful Nineveh to a Grateful AmericaÕ: Ancient Eloquence and Freedom of the Press in De morte luctuosaÉAndreae Hamiltonis.  American Philological Association Annual Conference.  Chicago, IL, 28 December, 1997.  (Re-presented at the CSU

Even Her Husband Praises Her: Public Verses (Versus) Private Voice in Andrew Croswell's Carmina lugubria.  American Philological Association Annual Conference.  Atlanta, GA, December 1994.

Towards a New World Senatus Doctorum: The Liminary Verse of the Magnalia Christi Americana. Ninth International Congress of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies.  Bari, Italy, August 1994.

Nail-Gnawing in a New World Landscape: From Allusion to Disillusion in John Beveridge's Epistolae familiares."  Second Annual Conference on Northern New England in the Nineteenth Century.  Washburn Humanities Center.  Livermore Falls, ME, June 1994.

At Play with Pope in the Fields of Fight: Phillis Wheatley and Uberbeitung.  MELUS: The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Annual Conference.  University of California at Berkeley.  Berkeley, CA, April 1993.

Milton's Horace: Ad patrem as a Study of Literary Parentage. Classical Association of the Atlantic States Annual Conference.  Georgetown University.  Washington, DC, April 1991.

To Invoke a Darker Muse: A Pair of New World Neo-Latin Poems by Men of Color.  Inaugural Meeting of the Society for the Classical Tradition. Boston University.  Boston, MA, March 1991.

New World, Dead Language?: A Pair of Neo-Latin Reactions to America. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference. Pennsylvania State University.  University Park, PA, March 1990.

Exhibits
RAT PACK Pack Rat: The Spoils of a Misspent Youth ? A Sinatra Exhibit from the Collection of Gilbert L. Gigliotti. Elihu Burritt Library, Central Connecticut State University.  New Britain, CT, September 1996.

Grants, Honors, and Awards (selected)
Finalist, Excellence in Award, Central Connecticut State University, 2002.

Faculty Advisor of the Year 2000-2001.
Student Activities/Leadership Development, Central Connecticut State University, 19 April 2001.

"'From This Promiscuous Breed': An Evening of Multicultural New England Writers."  Strategic Planning Initiative Grant, Central Connecticut State University, 2001.

"'A Curriculum, A Vigor, A Local Abstraction': The Literary Crosscurrents of the Connecticut River Valley."  Faculty Development Grant, Central Connecticut State University, 2000-2001.

Connecticut State University System-Wide Motto Contest.  Winning motto: "CSU: Developing a State of Minds," Summer 1998.

Excellence in Teaching Honor Roll. Central Connecticut State University, 1996.

Extracurricular Activities
Auctioneer, CCSU Inter-residence Council Faculty/Staff Auction, 1998-2002.

Disc Jockey and Host, "Frank, Gil, and Friends," WFCS 107.7 FM New Britain/Hartford, 1993-Present.

 Media Coverage
 Newspapers
     The New York Times      The Chronicle of Higher Education     The Lakeville Journal
     The Hartford Courant     The New Britain Herald
     The Hartford Advocate     The Newington Town Crier

 Radio
     WDRC AM 1360 (Hartford, CT)
     WPOP AM 1410 (Newington, CT)
     CJAD (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)

 Television
     WTIC Fox 61 (Hartford, CT)
     WTNH 8 (New Haven, CT)