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About Me

homepage

http://student.ccbcmd.edu/~ckenneth/publications.htm

biography

Born and raised in New Jersey (Exit 9), Chris lives, after an enchanting two-year detour in New Mexico, with his wife and two children in a farmhouse built in 1939 in Owings Mills, Maryland. During the day, he is the Director of Expository Writing at the University of Baltimore; at night, on weekends, and during other flashes of inspiration (a.k.a. "spare time"), he is a freelance writer.

Hoping to never fit in anywhere, when he is not teaching, watching horror films, or writing, he can usually be found fishing, meditating, hiking, reading, studying something related to writing, journalism, or film, plucking his bass, rooting for the 49ers or Devils, or chillin' with his wife and kids.

He also enjoys spreading government conspiracies and talking to himself in mall parking lots. A humanist and liberal arts nerd at heart, there is little he finds boring. Not too many nights pass without at least one dream-episode involving some type of monster registering in his unconscious. Last night it was rabid chipmunks; the night before, the ghost of his Little League coach, who turned zombie, and then became lunch for a giant squid.

He holds a master's degree in Modern Studies from Loyola College and a bachelor's in English from Rutgers University. While living in Albuquerque, he earned teacher certification in Secondary English Education at the University of New Mexico and recently completed a Certificate in Online Journalism from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He formerly served as an Assistant Professor of English and Mass Communication at The Community College of Baltimore County.

Once a staff writer for Greater Media Newspapers in New Jersey, his words have since appeared in The Baltimore Sun, Senses of Cinema, PopMatters, Bay Weekly, and Blue Ridge Country. His monthly column, The Tackle Box, is featured in PopMatters and focuses on how the sport of fishing is portrayed in popular culture. He also recently completed book chapters about Edgar G. Ulmer and Michael Haneke and is working on another related to the Back to the Future trilogy.

Favorites

favorite horror films

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu, M, King Kong, Bride of Frankenstein, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Them!, Psycho, Carnival of Souls, Night of the Living Dead, The Exorcist, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Jaws, Halloween, The Fog, The Shining, and The Silence of the Lambs.