Keith Gumery received his M.A. in fiction in 1996. The title of this thesis was The Keeper of the Worm. He went on to complete his PhD at Temple in 2001.  He is now the Associate Director of Temple's First-Year Writing Program.  He has written articles on Peter Greenaway and Henry Blake Fuller, and a composition reader International Views: America and the Rest of the World was published by Longman in 2006.