Dan Strauss

Dan Strauss traded academia for the world of car repair. While serving as a part-time English adjunct at a community college, he enrolled in a car repair class there, only to find that the "fixed meaning" of a Volvo Redblock was mre satisfying than the ambiguity of a post-structuralist text.

He traded his grad-student hoodie for a work shirt, spending a decade as a professional Volvo technician specializing in the 700 and 900 series platforms. Back pain eventually forced him to trade his floor jack for a whiteboard. Today, he teaches high school English, where he spends his days discussing the Winter Sublime in literature and his evenings practicing it in his garage.