A professional writer, editor, and educator, Robert has worked extensively in print and online media. He studied applied science, history, and Spanish as an undergraduate, completed a post-baccalaureate certificate in copyediting and a graduate certificate in TESOL, and earned a Master of Arts in literature and linguistics. He is currently completing his doctoral dissertation on the presence and significance of martyrdom in Shakespeare's plays and long poems. 

Journal Articles

• “Past All Speech”: The Enactment of Proto-Modernist Literary Aesthetics in Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno.” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, vol. 26, no. 2, 2024, pp. 40–53.
• “‘They Had Forgotten the Language with Which They Had Always Spoken’: Imagined Community and Linguistic Identity in the Catalan Children’s Book Tramuntana a la granja.” Kentucky Philological Review, vol. 38 (forthcoming). 

Conference Presentations

• “An Encounter with Three Dimensions of War: Realism, Iconicity, and Symbolism in the Graphic Adaptation of La Guerra Civil Española.” Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association, 2019, Pittsburgh, PA.
• “‘They Had Forgotten the Language with Which They Had Always Spoken’: Imagined Community and Linguistic Identity in the Catalan Children’s Book Tramuntana a la granja.” Paper presented at the annual conference of the Kentucky Philological Association, 2023, Danville, Kentucky.
• “‘Commit Them to the Fire’: The Poetics of Martyrdom in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale.” Paper presented at the annual conference of the Kentucky Philological Association, 2025, Richmond, Kentucky.

Unpublished Research Projects

• “Writing for an International Audience: Core Vocabulary Coverage of English-Language Journal Articles”
• “Circumlocution and Avoidance in the ESOL Classroom”
• “A Comparison of Semantic Aspects of Present Progressive Verb Forms in English and Catalan”
• “The Effect of Linguistic Idiosyncrasies on the Composition and Reception of Graphic Literature”