I am a veteran graduate student in Comparative Literature, currently working on a dissertation juxtaposing the poetry of Jean Sénac, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Federico Garcia Lorca, Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg and other poets of a similar generation who related their poetry to a particular experience of reality and to the centrality of the body in its expression. Born in New York, I grew up in Switzerland, and speak both French and English. Bilingualism and biculturalism have always been a source of inspiration and frustration, which find their way in many of the questions I’m pursuing academically.

I’m currently an adjunct lecturer in Comparative Literature at Queens College, a Communication Fellow at the Bernard L. Schwartz Institute at Baruch College, and the proud father of a 7 year-old daughter and a three year-old son.