I'm a retired prof. of English literature at the University of Haifa, currently teaching at an Arab teacher's college in Israel, where I've lived since 1969. I took an M.A. in clinical psych. in 1974 and was a practicing psychotherapist, while teaching, until retiring from both about 10 years ago. I'm married and have a daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter living in New Zealand and a son in San Francisco. In addition to books and articles in literary criticism and theory, I've written a book on baseball fans (More Than a Pastime), and published 3 books of poetry and poems in about 80 journals and magazines. I spend summers with my wife in our little home in the woods of glorious Vermont and try to write something, there and here, almost every day. I'm veeeeeery political in both countries.