Christopher Schmidt is a teacher, scholar, essayist, and poet. He is the author of a book of poems, The Next in Line (winner of the 2007 Slope Editions Book Prize). His poems and essays have appeared in Tin House, Court Green, La Petite Zine, SubStance,The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, Canadian Poetry, and the anthologies Satellite Convulsions and My Diva. He has also written for the Boston Review, Time Out, The Village Voice, and The New York Observer. He is currently revising his dissertation into a book on the aesthetics of waste management. Previous to coming to LaGuardia, he taught at University of Michigan, Bard College, and John Jay College, and before that, worked as a journalist and designer at various publications, including The New Yorker magazine.

Schools Attended: Yale University, BA; The Graduate Center, CUNY, PhD.

Areas of Interest: Twentieth Century and Contemporary American Literature and Culture, Modern and Postmodern Poetry and Poetics, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Technology and the Humanities, Ecocriticism, Composition and Rhetoric, Computers and Composition.

Favorite authors to teach: Sophocles, Charles Darwin, Gertrude Stein, Franz Kafka, Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery, Georges Perec, James Schuyler, Harryette Mullen, Benoit Mandelbrot, Christian Bok, Jamaica Kincaid, Marjane Satrapi, and Alison Bechdel.