Experience

Anglo-American University, Prague

• Czechia
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Lecturer

  • Sep 2018 - Present

  I’m an author, educator and journalist. I work full-time as senior lecturer in literature and journalism at Anglo-American University in Prague, Czech Republic; I also teach sometimes at the University of Vienna’s Comparative Literature Institute. Previously I taught at New York University, Utah State University, and Portland State University in the United States. I have twice been a senior Fulbright Scholar (Malta 1993, Slovakia 2011). My novel "The Talking Statues" was published last year by danzig&unfried. It's set in Rome, a city I know and love. My forthcoming book of reportage about central and eastern Europe, "Millennial Mitteleuropa", will be published also by danzig&unfried later in 2022. Some of my reporting on the Ukraine war's regional repercussions appearing here and elsewhere online will be in that book, in expanded form. My 2012 Rome travel book, "American Romanista," is available on Amazon Kindle. I also contribute to The Slovak Spectator, English-language edition of Slovakia's largest daily, Sme. Back in the late 1990s, I founded the regional magazine Edging West. I served as contributing editor for World Press Review magazine from 1980-2000, writing its “Europe Report” column throughout the 1990s. I’ve written on press issues, European culture and politics, and the American West for print and online media including National Geographic Traveler, Travel & Leisure, Far Eastern Economic Review, The Oregonian, and Philadelphia magazine. My scholarly articles have appeared in American and British Studies Annual, Studies in Foreign Language Education, Ethnologia Slovaca et Slavica, The Journal of American Folklore, and Marvels & Tales. I live eight months yearly in Prague, Czech Republic and four months in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. I share my life with my wife of nearly 30 years, Kimberley Miske Giarelli, a Portland Public Schools special education teacher, and our two dogs, Travis and Winston. Show less

• Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences

  • Sep 2019 - Present

  I'm also chair of the department of Arts, Culture and Literature in HSS.

• Senior Lecturer, School of Journalism and Media Studies

  • Sep 2016 - Aug 2018

• Lecturer

  • Jun 2011 - Aug 2016



Abteilung für Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft/Komparatistik

• Vienna, Austria

• External Lecturer

  • Mar 2013 - Jun 2019



Charles University in Prague, Institute of North American Studies

• Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

• External Lecturer

  • Jan 2013 - Jun 2015



Univerzita Komenského, Bratislava

• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Fulbright Scholar

  • Jan 2011 - Jun 2011