David Green is a lecturer in the CAS Writing Program at Boston University, a novelist and literary critic. His special interests include Samuel Beckett and the Irish modernist poets. Before coming to Boston University, he taught at the University of Texas at San Antonio and St. Mary’s University, also in San Antonio, as well as at universities in Spain and China. He is the recipient of the 1999 Sproat Award for the Outstanding Teacher of Writing at Boston University. His collection of short stories, The Garden of Love, was published late in 2009 by Pen & Anvil Press. His scholarly publications include studies of Samuel Beckett and the Irish poet Brian Coffey. David teaches in the CAS Core Curriculum and in the CAS Writing Program.