A sixth-generation Floridian, I enjoy traveling, drinking craft beer, and listening to live music with my stunning and brilliant mate Nancy; being in the outdoors (particularly camping and water-related activities); and visiting with friends and family—including my two outstanding daughters and two objectively excellent grandchildren. Not necessarily in that order.
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I've had paying jobs as fry cook, busboy, valet, secretary, sign maker, delivery driver, telephone solicitor, security guard (including an infamous nuclear-plant gig), spring engineer, computer programmer, junior-high Drama teacher, copyeditor, test administrator, and web developer. Among other things.
Professionally, I retired from the faculty at Florida State University in 2020 after a long career teaching Human Communication and consulting in instructional technology and online learning, primarily on college campuses (see CV).
In 2014, I completed a Ph.D. in Communication with an emphasis in environmental rhetoric and new media. My dissertation was a critical/interpretive project on the way the natural world is represented in virtual ones—and the resulting ambiguities in the meanings of "natural," "virtual," and "real." As you might imagine, I had a fecking ball with it.
Along the way, I've published book chapters and journal articles in rhetoric, new media, and environmental communication, and have published and presented in fields as diverse as criminal justice, emergency operations, and interior design. I've been invited to speak on new media and higher education topics in Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Finland. I've won awards for weird fiction, critical/analytical research, machinima, and even—gasp—workplace efficiency. See my CV if you don't believe me. Or even if you do.