PhD The State University of New York, Albany
MA The State University of New York, Albany
BA The State University of New York, Albany
Michael Blitz is Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies (where he served as Chair from 1999 - 2009). He joined the John Jay College faculty in 1988 after two years as Associate Director of Composition at Rutgers University. In addition, Michael Blitz holds a 3rd Degree Black Belt in Krav Maga (the official self-defense system of the Israeli Defense Forces [IDF]) and has taught Krav Maga to adults and children since 2001. Michael lives on Long Island with his wife, Mozelle; they have four children: Celine, Daina, Cory, and Rene.
2015 The Trouble He Brews (Cleveland, OH: Laughing Gull Press)
2014 Jon Stewart: A Biography (Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press)
2014 Those Other Ways of Looking at a Blackbird. (Lexington, KY: Dark Press)
2011 On the Surgeon's Knife (Accordion Foundry Press)
2011 Johnny Depp: A Biography (Czech translation, Praha 2011)
2008 Johnny Depp: A Biography (Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press) w/Louise Krasniewicz
2006 Arnold Schwarzenegger: A Biography (Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press) w/Louise Krasniewicz
2004 Why Arnold Matters: the Rise of a Cultural Icon (New York: Basic Books) w/Louise Krasniewicz
2002 Satellite Strains (Barrytown, NY: Left Hand Books)
2002 These Now & Other Poems (Writers Club Press)
2002 100 Pre-Read Blushes: When the Poem is Not Enough (Writers Club Press)
1998 Letters for the Living: Teaching Writing in a Violent Age (Urbana, IL: NCTE) w/C. Mark Hurlbert
1995 Suction Files (Providence, RI: Woodbine Press)
1991 Composition & Resistance (Boynton/Cook - Heinemann) w/C. Mark Hurlbert
1990 Five Days in the Electric Chair (Providence, RI: Woodbine Press)
1986 The Spacialist (Providence, RI: Woodbine Press)
1982 Partitions (Fall River, MA: Volaphon Books)
Michael's areas of research include:
---American poetry & poetics
---Cultural studies
---Biography and autobiography
---Cosmology
---Krav Maga, Israeli Self-Defense