Dr. Hobbs has previously taught at the University of Silesia in Sosnowiec, Poland (1994-95), Indiana University of Pennsylvania (2005-07), Seton Hill University (Greensburg, PA: 2007-08), and Saint Francis University (Loretto, PA: 2007). At IUP, his doctoral dissertation focused on Turn-of-the-Millennium American Expatriate Narrative. He joined the faculty of Saint Leo University's School of Arts & Sciences in 2008, chaired the Department of Language Studies and the Arts from 2009-2010, and was tenured/promoted to associate professor in 2013. Primarily a generalist, his expertise is in contemporary North American literature and his teaching/research interests include Critical/Literary Theory, Comparative 20th-Century Transatlantic Literatures, Speculative Fiction, and Irish/Polish/Holocaust/Cultural Studies. He has formerly provided instruction for the university's Faculty Development Training program and is presently servicing courses for the B.A. in English Literary Studies specialization, the University Exploration (UE) general education program, the Saint Leo University Honors program, and Saint Leo WorldWide online. He frequently delivers papers at the annual symposia for several professional organizations, and his scholarly projects have been published in Epiphany, African American National Biography (ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.), Sandhill Review, Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction (Wildside P, 2011), Journal of International Culture, and Florida Studies (Cambridge Scholars P, 2011/2018).
