He earned his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, where as a doctoral student he received the Maxine Hairston Prize in teaching excellence from the Department of Rhetoric and Writing. His courses include “Satire and the Art of Protest,” “Punk Rock and the Art of Dissent,” “Storytelling and the Art of Empathy,” and of course “Art and the Art of Art” (just kidding about the last one). He regularly teaches “Analytic and Persuasive Writing” and “Writing the Environment,” both exciting rhetoric courses.