Dan Irving

Dan Irving is an Instructor of English in the Humanities Department at the United States Merchant Marine Academy since 2018. He holds a Ph.D. in English from Stony Brook University (2018), an M.A. from Binghamton University (2011), and a B.A. from Queens College (2009).

His research focuses on narratology and experimental literary forms, particularly how readers engage with slow, digressive, or minimally narrative texts. His dissertation, Nothing Never Happens: Adventures in Narrativity, explores contemporary narrative experiments like dialogue novels and slow TV. His work has been published in Frontiers of Narrative Studies, Poetics Today, and other journals.

No academic awards or grants are explicitly listed in the provided text. He teaches courses in Composition, Literature, and Technical Communication, and contributes to the English Language Lab and the Marine Transportation program's humanities components.