Charles Michael Pawluk is a writer and teacher. He received his Ph.D. in English from SUNY Buffalo, where he also completed a postdoctoral fellowship.

His poetry and prose appears in Witness, Birmingham Poetry Review, JMWW, Tiny Molecules, and elsewhere. See a full list of publications here.

Both his dissertation and his critical work focus on comic violence in eighteenth-century British literature. His scholarship appears in the peer-reviewed journals Eighteenth-Century Studies and The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.

He is currently the chair of the English department of a college-preparatory academy in Maryland, where he teaches literature and film. He has also taught a wide variety of courses on literature and writing at SUNY Buffalo and Canisius College, including medieval and early modern British literature, professional and technical writing, and various levels of first-year composition.

You can contact him here.