About Me

I am an author, a seasoned film critic and feature writer, and an adjunct professor of film studies at LIM College. I am also an intrepid traveler.

I write mostly about film, although I have written about Italian art, food, wine and travel. I am the "Cinema" columnist for the Washington, D.C.-based Ambassador, and I write frequently for the New York City-based Cineaste, and for All Arts, WNET's online magazine. My work has also appeared recently in the LA Times, The Brooklyn Eagle and on Biography.com, among many other online and print outlets in the U.S. and Canada.

My recent book is "Cinematic Quests for Identity: The Hero's Encounter with the Beast" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.). I am also the author of "Gender Equity Module: Ensuring Unbiased Behavior in an All-Girl Environment" (GSUSA, 1994), a first-of-its-kind module on bias in all-girl informal educational environments.

For the past 25 years, I have been a full and part time academic in graduate and undergraduate departments of English, film and writing. I have taught at Rutgers, Pratt, several CUNY colleges, and at Dine College on the Navajo Reservation.

I am a native New Yorker, and reside in Manhattan with my feline companions, Luca and Luna. At this writing, I am working on my next film book.