Eugene Hammond Stony Brook University

Gene Hammond is Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Stony Brook University. He is the author of Teaching Writing, Thoughtful Writing, Travels through the English Sentence, and a two-volume biography of Jonathan Swift: Jonathan Swift: Irish Blow-in, and Jonathan Swift: Our Dean. He has taught writing, eighteenth-century British literature, postcolonial literature, African-American literature, and ancient history at Stony Brook University, the University of Maryland, Maret High school and middle school, and the Semester-at-Sea program of the University of Virginia.