From Global Lit(erature) to Global Lit(igation)

By BENJAMIN OPIPARI

Working for a law firm, an English Ph.D. spends his days teaching writing but actually getting paid well for it

For four years, from 2002 to 2006, I got a taste of what it would be like to pursue an academic career. I was director of the writing center at Colgate University while also a Ph.D. candidate in English language and literature at Catholic University of America.

My wife and I, both natives of the Washington, D.C., area, moved to upstate New York feeling fortunate to