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.

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 (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.

Work in Progress

• “The Semiotics of the Body and the Insufficiency of Words: Liturgy, Drama, and Love in Elizabeth Inchbald’s A Simple Story”

Unpublished Research Projects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”