Curriculum Vitae

Education

• Ph.D., University of South Florida, Tampa (May 2002)
  Contemporary Literature and Theory; Technology and Media in English Studies; eLearning (4.0 gpa)
• M.A., University of South Florida, Tampa (May 1997)
  Modern & Contemporary Literature; Russian Literature (4.0 gpa)
• B.A., University of South Florida, Tampa (May 1994)
  English Literature (3.85 GPA)

Teaching Positions

• Professor of English, Middle Georgia State University, GA (2015–present)
  Designed and taught graduate courses Writing and Publishing in Digital Environments and Technical Writing in the Digital Age; undergraduate courses including Digital Humanities, Studies in the Novel, British Literature II, Modern Drama, Organizations, Technology, and Culture, (Post)Modernism and Utopia, Voices and Visions: A Survey of Science Fiction, Interdisciplinary Humanities (Online), Senior Capstone: Professional Portfolio; pilot sections of ENGL 1101 in the ReImagining First-Year Writing program, including its Writing with AI project (Fall 2026).
• Associate Professor of English, Middle Georgia State College, GA (2007–2015)
  Courses include Introduction to Digital Humanities, Norman Mailer’s America, Writing for Digital Media, Cyberpunk, eText Authoring with iPads, Digital Humanities on iTunes U, Modernism, Utopia and Apocalypse, Metaphysical Science Fiction.
• Assistant Professor of English, Macon State College, GA (2002–2007)
  Courses include Literary Theory, Speculative Fiction, Writing Second Life, Science Fiction and Futurism, Technology and the Creative Artist, Senior Seminar: New Media, World Literature I & II (Online), English Composition (Online).
• Instructor, European Council, University College London, UK (2009, 2011)
  Five-week USG study abroad; taught World Literature II and Popular Culture: London as Text (2009) and two sections of Photo London (2011).
• Teaching Assistant, University of South Florida, FL (1995–2002)
  Designed and taught courses including Images of the Body in Contemporary Literature, Advanced Technical Writing: Graphics, Typology, and Design, The Technological Imagination in Literature, Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction, Technical Writing: Hypertext / MOO: Authoring and Theory, Introduction to Literature: Issues in Technology, First-Year Composition II: The Jazz Age.
• Instructor, USF Continuing Education, FL (2000–2001)
  Taught HTML/CSS coding and web design.

Selected Print Publications

Books

• The Mailer Review Vol. 16, Special Edition: 20 Years of the Review. A festschrift for Phillip Sipiora. Co-edited with Matthew S. Hinton. Norman Mailer Society (Nov 2026).
• Lipton’s: A Marijuana Journal, 1954–1955 by Norman Mailer. Co-edited with J. Michael Lennon and Susan Mailer. New York: Arcade Publishing (June 2024).
• Reflections: 100 Years of Norman Mailer by various authors. Co-edited with Maggie McKinley. Norman Mailer Society (2023).
• Norman Mailer: Works and Days by J. Michael Lennon and Donna Pedro Lennon. Ed. Gerald R. Lucas. Atlanta: Norman Mailer Society (2018).

Book Chapters

• “Meeting Mailer.” In Lucas, Gerald R.; McKinley, Maggie. Reflections: Norman Mailer at 100. Norman Mailer Society. pp. 44–45. (2023).
• “Courage through Opposition: The Political Resonance of Norman Mailer.” In Norman Mailer in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2021): 373–383.
• “Speculative Fiction.” In Schaffer, Brian W., et al. The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction. Volume II: Twentieth-century American Fiction. Oxford, UK: Wiley Blackwell. pp. 840–843. (2011).
• “World.Lit: Envisioning Literary Education Online.” In Lancashire, Ian. Teaching Language and Literature Online. New York: MLA. pp. 372–383. (2009).
• “The Research Essay Resources.” Chapter 10 in Sipiora, Phillip. Reading and Writing about Literature. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall (2001).
• “James Joyce’s ‘The Dead.’” In Sipiora, Phillip. Reading and Writing about Literature. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall (2001).

Journal Articles

• “Introduction: The Site of Memory.” With Matthew S. Hinton. The Mailer Review Vol. 16 (2026).
• “Saint and Psychopath” by Norman Mailer (Aug 19, 2022). Times Literary Supplement, 6229/6230. Edited and Introduced by J. Michael Lennon, Gerald R. Lucas, and Susan Mailer.
• “It Might Not Be Unpleasant to Live: The Transitional Short Fiction of Norman Mailer.” The Mailer Review Vol. 15 (2021). Rpt. in The Mailer Review Vol. 16 (2026).
• “Project Mailer 2015.” The Mailer Review Vol. 9 (2015).
• “Teaching Norman Mailer in the Cloud.” The Mailer Review Vol. 7 (2013): 150–174.
• “Norman Mailer and the Novel 2.0.” The Mailer Review Vol. 5 (2011).

Book Reviews

• “Searching for Home.” Review of Four Men Shaking by Lawrence Shainberg. The Mailer Review Vol. 13 (2019): 204–207.
• “Film Is Like Death.” Review of The Cinema of Norman Mailer edited by Justin Bozung. The Mailer Review Vol. 11 (2017): 273–279.
• “Parallel Lives.” Review of Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship that Shaped the Sixties by Kevin M. Schultz. The Mailer Review Vol. 9 (2015): 316–321.
• “An Executioner for a New Age.” Review of The Executioner’s Song rerelease edited by Dave Eggers. The Mailer Review Vol. 7 (2013): 417–420.

Fiction

• “Every You, Every Me.” Fiction. The Mailer Review Vol. 10 (2016): 481–505.

Digital Projects

• Norman Mailer: Works & Days , digital edition, with J. Michael Lennon
  worksdays.projectmailer.net (2016; public beta of third edition 2026–present)
• Lipton’s Journal , with J. Michael Lennon & Susan Mailer
  liptonsjournal.com (2020)
• Project Mailer
  projectmailer.net (2014–present)
• Wikipedia
  Writer / Editor, various articles (2013–2021)
• Faust QuickNotes
  eNotes (2008)
• LitWiki
  litwiki.org (2004–2017; 2021–present)
• Writer MSC OWL
  Title III Grant digital resources (2002)

Invited Speaker

• “Lipton’s: A Marijuana Journal.” Coffee and Conversation, MGA (Nov 6, 2024)
• “ChatGPT in English Studies.” Multidisciplinary Panel on ChatGPT, MGA (Jan 27, 2023)
• “ ‘Shored Against My Ruins’: The Road to Recovery in The Waste Land.” Arts Festival, MGA (Mar 2022)
• “The Digital Mailer Project: A Proposal.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Wilkes-Barre, PA (Oct 2014)
• “Social Media: Top Ten Practices for College Faculty.” Faculty Development Presentation, MGSC (Nov 2013)
• “Energize Teaching with Social Media.” Bainbridge State College Faculty Convocation, GA (Aug 2013)
• “Why Study Abroad?” Cultural Journeys Conference, Macon State College, GA (Mar 2012)
• “Pastiche and Portraits in Photography.” The Macon State College Arts Festival, Macon, GA (Mar 2011)
• “Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘Ligeia.’” The Macon State College English Studies Organization, Macon, GA (Oct 2009)
• “A Fine Time: Mailer Studies in the New Century.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Provincetown, MA (Oct 2006)

Media Appearances

• Interviewee. How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer. Dir. Agnès Pizzini. Documentary (2026)

Selected Conference Presentations

• “Some Honorable Entries: Mailer’s 1976 Self-Editing and the Bibliography as Argument.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, St. Pete Beach, FL (Nov 2026)
• “Mailer’s Digital Paradox: Totalitarian Style, the Put-On, and the Struggle for Human Authorship.” SAMLA, Atlanta, GA (Nov 2025)
• “Norman Mailer 2.0: Tech’s Latest ‘Put-On’?” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Wilkes University, PA (Oct 2025)
• “‘A Touch of the Cosmos’ in Mailer’s ‘The Time of Her Time.’” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, St. Petersburg, FL (Nov 2024)
• “Lipton’s Journal.” Virtual Presentation. The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Austin, TX (Apr 2023)
• “Teaching Mailer.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Long Branch, NJ (Jun 2022)
• “Mailer’s Transitional Short Fiction.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Long Branch, NJ (Jun 2022)
• “Norman Mailer and Joseph Ellis: Unsettling Dialogues on Democracy.” Roundtable Participant. The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Virtual (Oct 2020)
• “‘Superman Comes to the Supermarket’ Sixty Years On.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Virtual (Oct 2020)
• “Project Mailer Update, 2020.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Virtual (Oct 2020)
• “A Meeting of the Minds: Norman Mailer and Marshall McLuhan.” The Media Ecology Association Convention, Virtual (June 2020)
• “Mailer and McLuhan.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Wilkes-Barre, PA (Oct 2019)
• “Norman Mailer’s Short Fiction.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Macon, GA (Oct 2018)
• “Digital Mailer 2017.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Sarasota, FL (Oct 2017)
• “Utopian Thinking in Action.” The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, Louisville, KY (Feb 2017)
• “Digital Mailer, 2016.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Long Branch, NJ (Oct 2016)
• “The White Negro: A Scholarly Digital Edition.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Provincetown, MA (Oct 2015)
• “Digital Mailer, 2015.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Provincetown, MA (Oct 2015)
• “Breaking Bad: Walter White’s Hipster Transformation.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Wilkes-Barre, PA (Oct 2014)
• “Teaching Norman Mailer.” Roundtable Participant, The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Wilkes-Barre, PA (Oct 2014)
• “Teaching Norman Mailer in the Cloud.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Sarasota, FL (Oct 2013)
• “Norman Mailer’s Novel(ist): In and Beyond the Late Age of Print.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Provincetown, MA (Oct 2012)
• “Cormac McCarthy’s Apocalypse: Signs and Maps Along The Road.” Southwest Texas PCA Conference, Albuquerque, NM (Feb 2012)
• “Study Abroad: Local Challenges Facing the South.” SAMLA Roundtable, Atlanta, GA (Nov 2011)
• “Cutting Up Mailer: The Novel 2.0.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Sarasota, FL (Nov 2010)
• “Mephistopheles, Mailer, and the Comfort of Evil.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Washington, D.C. (Oct 2009)
• “Breaking the Girl: Poe’s ‘Ligeia’ and Lem’s Solaris.” PCA/ACA Conference, New Orleans, LA (Apr 2009)
• “Southern Baptists, Norman Mailer, and Me.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Provincetown, MA (Oct 2008)
• “The Harbors of the Moon: Media and the Mediated in Mailer’s An American Dream.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Provincetown, MA (Oct 2007)
• “Visual Storytelling: Flickr in the Literature Classroom.” SAMLA, Charlotte, NC (Nov 2006)
• “Science Fiction and the Metagame.” PCA/ACA, Atlanta, GA (Mar 2006)
• “Humanities Online: Some Ethical Considerations and Recommendations.” Southeastern Scholarship Conference on E-Learning, Macon, GA (Sep 2005)
• “Distance Education for Literature Courses: Some Ethical Considerations.” CCCC, San Francisco, CA (Mar 2005)
• “The Virtual Manifest: Solaris and the Persistence of Memory.” Fantastic in the Arts Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL (Mar 2004)
• “Three Views of Science: Lem’s, Tarkovsky’s, and Soderbergh’s Solaris.” FSU Literature and Film Conference, Tallahassee, FL (Jan 2004)

Awards & Honors

• Co-Recipient, Robert Lucid Award for Lipton’s: A Marijuana Journal, 1954–1955 (2024)
• Research Fellow, The Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin (Summer 2024)
• Recipient, Barry Leeds Travel Fund, $1,000 for research travel to Austin (June 2024)
• Co-Recipient, Robert Lucid Award for Norman Mailer: Works & Days (2019)
• Nominee, Regents’ Teaching Excellence Award for Online Teaching, State of Georgia (2014)
• Norman Mailer Fellow, Norman Mailer Writers Colony, Salt Lake City, UT (2014)
• Grant Recipient, “The Post-PC Project,” Middle Georgia State College (2012)
• Title III Grants: World Literature Online; Online Writing Center, Macon State College (2004)
• Award for Excellence in Electronic Administration & Teaching, USF Dept. of English (2002)
• Alice Hearne Award for Outstanding Doctoral Candidate, USF Dept. of English (2001)
• Provost’s Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student (2000) and Provost’s Commendation (1999), University of South Florida
• Addison-Wesley / Longman Award for Teaching Excellence, USF Dept. of English (1998)
• Joseph Bentley Teaching Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching, USF Dept. of English (1997)
• Pass with Distinction, M.A. and Ph.D. comprehensive exams, USF (1997, 2001)

Professional Development

• “AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations.” Certificate of Completion, Anthropic (June 2026)

Administrative Positions

• CIT/NMAC Coordinator, Macon State College, GA (2010–2012)
  Revised curriculum; rewrote courses; advised students and performed graduation audits; supervised internships; refit the Mac classroom; taught senior seminar and portfolio capstone.
• Coordinator, Computer-Assisted Classroom, USF Department of English (1997–2002)
  Ran the department’s multimedia classroom; instructed students and faculty; maintained hardware, software, and network; supported Windows 2000 and Red Hat Linux workstations and servers.

Professional Service

• Editor, The Mailer Review (2026–present)
• Supervisor, Graduate Editorial Assistant, The Mailer Review (Spring 2026)
• Editorial Board Member, The Mailer Review (2021–2026)
• Associate Editor / Media Editor, The Mailer Review (Oct 2006–2021)
• President, The Norman Mailer Society (2024–2025)
• Vice-President, The Norman Mailer Society (2018–2023)
• Conference Co-Organizer, The Norman Mailer Society Conference (2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2025)
• Executive Board Member, The Norman Mailer Society (Oct 2007–present)
• Chair / Moderator, The Norman Mailer Society Conference (2007–2009, 2011–present)
• Mentor, Wiki Education (Spring 2020–present)
• AP Exam Reader, Louisville, KY (May 2011, June 2015)
• Panel Chair (selected): “The Apocalypse in Popular Culture,” Southwest Texas PCA, Albuquerque, NM (2012); Roundtable on Study Abroad, SAMLA, Atlanta, GA (2011); “From Vampires to Video Games,” PCA/ACA, Atlanta, GA (2006); “J.G. Ballard,” Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, FL (2004)

Selected New Media Experience

• System Administrator
  Ubuntu and Debian Linux servers for projects and software evaluation (2008–present)
• Web Site Editor
  Project Mailer (2014–present); J. Michael Lennon (2012–present); The Norman Mailer Society (2007–present); The Mailer Review (2006–present); Humanities Moodle Server (2006–present); Media, Culture & the Arts (2002–2013); LitMUSE (1999–2018); Personal site (1995–present)
• Static-Site Redesign
  Author sites for J. Michael Lennon, Leslie Armstrong, and Susan Mailer (2026)
• PowerPoint Slide Designer
  Prentice Hall, Technical Writing in the Twenty-first Century (Fall 2006)
• Technical Support
  USF Department of English (1999–2000); MGA (2003–present)
• Platforms
  MediaWiki, WordPress, BuddyPress, Moodle, Hugo, Astro, Scalar, Omeka, Drupal; HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, some JavaScript
• Software
  Claude, ChatGPT, Midjourney; Adobe (Photoshop, Acrobat, InDesign); Apple (Final Cut Pro X, GarageBand, iWork); Google Apps; and more

Selected University Service

• ReImagining First-Year Writing Pilot Committee, Writing with AI project (2026–present)
• Graduate Studies Council (2014–Spring 2026)
• Chair, Graduate Studies Council (AY 2021–2022, 2022–2023)
• Academic Affairs (AY 2021–2022, 2022–2023)
• Chair, Tenure and Promotion Subcommittee (2022)
• Faculty Senate (2016–2018)
• Search Committee Chair, NMAC (hired tenure-track professor 2013, 2016)
• Technology Resource Committee (Secretary 2006–2008, 2009–2010, 2014–2016; Chair 2007–2008)
• Post-Tenure Review Committee (2010–2013)
• Social Media Policy Committee (Summer 2013)
• Student Media Advisory Board (2011–2012)
• Program Promotion Committee (2009–2010)
• Long-Range Planning Committee (2008–2009)
• Advisor, MSC Mac Users Group (2007–2008)
• Academic Personnel Policies Committee, Secretary (2005–2006)
• Executive Committee, Macon State College, Secretary (2004–2005)
• Search Committees, Spanish (2004–2005) and English, three positions (2003–2004)
• Senior Project Adviser (2003–2008)

Community Service

• Community Organizer, Vineville Historic Neighborhood on Nextdoor (2012–2016)
• Speaker, Teaching with Technology, Rutland High School In-service Day (July 2008)
• Judge, Houston County High School Reflections Creative Writing Contest (2004, 2005)
• Grader, Georgia Regents’ Exam (2004, 2006)

Teaching Interests

• Contemporary American literature; Digital Humanities; Scholarly digital editing; Modernism; Media and technology in English studies.

References available upon request.