A writer, teacher and music journalist, Michael Ullman currently teaches full time in the English and Music Departments of Tufts University. This is a unique split appointment that allows him to teach a history of jazz and a history of blues in the music department and, in the English department, an advanced course on nonfiction writing, as well as a series of literary courses for advanced students. Most recently, these large seminars have included a class on James Joyce's Ulysses, on the poetry of Yeats, and a class on the poetry and plays of T.S. Eliot. He is preparing a summer class on Virginia Woolf, and regularly teaches a course on Twentieth Century American Poetry. In the past he has taught classes as varied as The Modern European Novel, a year long history of the British novel, a survey of American literature, and a course on Shakespeare. He is the author of two books, Jazz Lives (New Republic Books) and, with co-author Lewis Porter, Jazz from its Origins to the Present (Prentice Hall). One of his articles is collected in The Miles Davis Reader (edited by Bill Kirchner) and his history of the jazz clarinet is published in the recent Oxford Companion to Jazz. Ullman has had a column, Michael Ullman on Jazz, in the New Republic, and has written for the Boston Globe, the Boston Phoenix, the Atlantic Monthly, the internet magazine Salon and for dozens of other publications. For over ten years, he has written about classical music for and has had a jazz column in Fanfare Magazine. For the Atlantic Monthly, he has written jazz articles on figures such as Nat King Cole, and a series of profiles of classical pianists, which should be continuing. He has also written on various literary topics, and published articles on the likes of Dickens and Kipling. He has written liner notes to discs by Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington, Joe Henderson, Sarah Vaughan, Jimmy Smith, Quincy Jones, and many others. He has been asked both to choose the repertoire and write the notes on several of these discs, including Billie Holiday Sings Standards. Ullman has lectured at American Studies conferences, at the Newport Jazz Festival, at the University of Pennsylvania, and even, at the request of the Smithsonian Institution, on the steamboat The Mississippi Queen. Ullman's photographs of jazz musicians have been published in The New Republic and in his two books. He plays amateurish piano, and has run in seventeen marathons and numerous shorter races. For the past three years he has studied philosophy with B.U. philosopher Stanley Rosen and with Tufts professor George Smith. He reads French fluently and for the past two years, has been struggling to learn German. Ullman has a B.A. from Harvard, an M.A. from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan (1976). He is married and has two children.