Note: Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs at University of Houston-Downtown (since Jan 2019). Before that, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English at Purdue University at Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA (since 2015). Birthdate rarely given publicly; taken from LOC (via VIAF; he got BSc in 1988 and listed as 53 y.o. in Mar 2020 by clustrmaps.com)