Randall Martoccia has taught nearly eighty classes since 1998--mostly freshman composition but occasionally the more interesting classes you see below. In the fall of 2006, he taught his 1500th student and is now well on his way to two thousand. (His two-thousandth, by the way, will receive a free George Foreman grill.) Since earning his MA in creative writing, Martoccia has widened his interests to include contemporary literature, screenwriting, and film-making. In 2004, through his company Lawnchair Productions, he produced a short film, "Charlie-Go-Round." His company's next project will be a short comedy about sculptors, called "The Shape I'm In." Martoccia once loved the open road more than anything, but now long trips in the car just make his disposition irritable and his back achy. He is confident that advances in lumbar-support technology will one day make driving fun again.

Degrees
B.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.A. East Carolina University

Primary Areas of Research/Teaching
American Literature
Late 20th Century Literature
Post Modernist Literature
Film Studies

Courses Taught
4530: Special Topics Seminar in Satire
3420: The Short Story
2900: Introduction to Film Studies
2200: Major American Writers
2000: Interpreting Literature
1200: Composition
1100: Composition