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 fiction appears in Witness, Faultline, MoonPark Review, and Tiny Molecules.

His poetry is forthcoming in Birmingham Poetry Review.

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, and he has written a review essay for American Book Review.

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.