Dr. David Steiling

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Gender	Male
Industry	Education
Occupation	College Professor
Location	Sarasota, FL, United States
Introduction	Born in Rapid City, SD, raised in Wyoming, California and Idaho. I graduated from Skyline High School in Idaho Falls in 1967. BA in English from Carleton College, 1971. MA in Creative Writing and Literature from Boston University, 1974. Ph.D. from the University of South Florida, 2006. Through the 1970s I was a poet-in-residence for a number of communities in the Commonwealths of Massachusetts and Kentucky. In the first half of the 1980s I was a new vaudevillian working as a clown, juggler, magician and male stripper. From 1984 to 1989 I was a journalist working for magazines and newspapers. I began teaching in higher education in 1986 and started at the Ringling College of Art and Design in 1988. I am currently a member of the full-time faculty and Curriculum Advisor for the Literature Area of the Liberal Arts Program. My academic specialities are in the areas of comics, speculative fiction and media studies. My current academic interests are in issues involving narrative, world-building and emerging virtual realities.
Interests	Performance Art, Music performance and composition, Recreational Cycling
Favorite Movies	Jules et Jim, Day for Night, La Strada, 8 1/2, Persona, Blue Velvet, Groundhog Day, Thin Man series, Lord of the Rings Extended version, Robert Altman's Three Women, Louis Malle's Black Moon, The Princess and the Warrior, Schizopolis, Electric Dragon 80000 Volts