My blogs

Blogs I follow

Gender	Male
Industry	Education
Occupation	Provost and Vice President Academic
Location	Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Introduction	Born Montreal. Studied at Loyola College, McMaster University. PhD on Alexander Pope and the medical traditions of melancholia; travelled through Europe, Australasia, West Indies,India,and Asia. Lived in Hamilton Ontario, New Zealand, England, Germany, Kitchener-Waterloo, Saskatchewan, Thunder Bay
Interests	Professional: Collegial governance, academic planning, ideology, working class sensibility, film, postcolonial theory, pedagogy; Personal: Experimental Jazz, Blues Music; history of the photograph, nostalgia, wilderness camping, kayaking, Taoism, Buddhism, China (cultures, histories, food,travel)
Favorite movies	The Godfather trilogy, Coen brothers, gangster and prison films; Ken Loach, Innaritu
Favorite music	Blues, Jazz, Stones, Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, Klezmer, Django R, Jean-Luc Ponty, Mingus,Lex French
Favorite books	Age of Iron, Life and Times of Michael K, The Road, Hard-boiled Wonderland and The End of the World, Kafka's The Trial, David Copperfield