Dr. Jeffrey Douglas currently teaches college and university writing, communications, ESL, and design courses in London, Ontario. He has several years of experience teaching academic writing to ESL students, is a registered member of the Ontario College of Teachers, and is a certified member of TESL Ontario. His dissertation, Neopastoral Artifacts and the Phenomonology of Environment, explores the aesthetic impact of human intervention into natural landscapes, particularly how an age of disposable goods has interrupted and altered our perceptions of wilderness and rural spaces. A published academic, creative writer, and photographer, he also manages an independent press called BlankSpace Publications, which has received international attention.