Thomas Grochowski

Tom Grochowski has published on topics ranging from Woody Allen, Sex and the City, the Marx Brothers, and web sites devoted to the O.J. Simpson murder trial. His most recent article, ” ‘The Poo Quotient Needs to be higher’: Horrible Histories and the Carnival of Children’s Television Programming,” was published in the 2016 anthology Children’s and Young Adult Literature: A Mosaic of Criticism, ed. Amie Doughty (Cambridge Scholars Publishing). He currently teaches American Literature, film, and media studies at St. Joseph’s College, where he Associate Chair of the Department of English. He is currently on the MAPACA advisory board. He earned his PhD from New York University’s Department of Cinema Studies; he also holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College, where he studied with Allen Ginsberg. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife two daughters, and dog.