Education

Ph.D., University of North Carolina Greensboro

MA, University of North Carolina Greensboro

BA, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania  

Teaching and Research Interests

American Literature before 1900; Gothic American Literature; African American Literature before 1903; Native American Literature before 1900; Travel Writing; Rhetoric and Composition  

Publications

"Eighteenth-Century Spiritual Autobiography in the Quaker World." The Quaker World. Ed. Wess Daniels and Rhiannon Grant. Routledge Press. (2022).  

"Moving Inside Out: Success and Failure Navigating Race-Based Class Discussion." Transformations: The Journal of Scholarship and Inclusive Pedagogy 29.1 (2019).

“Reforming the Literary Black Atlantic: Worshipful Resistance in the Transatlantic World.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture Vol. 44 (2015).

Conference Associations

SEA (Society of Early Americanists)

ASECS (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies)

MELUS (Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States)

MLA (Modern Language Association) 

Bio

Dr. Pisano has been teaching at USCU since August 2016. He teaches a variety of courses in American literature as well as introductory college composition and research methods. In addition to his teaching, Dr. Pisano coordinates the USCU writing center and runs a regular film series on campus with the goal of using film to broach important social and philosophical topics. While not at work, he enjoys spending time with his family, traveling, playing guitar, and collecting vinyl albums.