My entire career, from the end of my undergraduate studies at Berkeley until the present, has been focused on finding a more satisfying way to talk about and study literary works. As a graduate student in Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley, I taught in the Rhetoric program. Since earning the PhD, I have taught at Berkeley, The University of Siegen (Germany), The University of California at San Diego, and The University of Tulsa. My course offerings range from Greek, Latin, German, and Old English language and literature to "Honors: Ancient Greece," "Honors: The Middle Ages," and "Gangster Films." Publications beyond the dissertation (which was at the beginning of my theoretical and practical experimentation) include articles on theory, the book Between Two Armies: the place of the duel in epic culture (Brill, 1999), a recent article on Pulp Fiction, and a forthcoming chapter, "Teaching and Learning Classical Literature Through Mapping" to appear in the three-volume set: Reading and Teaching the Classics.