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Meet the University of Bridgeport Press Team
Dr. Randy Laist, Director
Randy Laist is a professor of English, Chair of the English Department, and Director of the Division of Arts and Humanities at the University of Bridgeport in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He is the author of Rethinking Writing Instruction in the Age of AI, The Twin Towers in Film: A Cinematic History of the World Trade Center, Cinema of Simulation: Hyperreal Hollywood in the Long 1990s, and Technology and Postmodern Subjectivity in Don DeLillo's Novels. He has also edited volumes of essays on college movies, plant studies, Indiana Jones, retro-representations of the 1980s, and inclusive educational design. He lives in New Haven with his wife, two kids, Star the dog, and Sigmund the cat.
Mike Barlow, Acquisitions Editor
Mike Barlow teaches English classes at the University of Bridgeport. He is the author of Learning to Love Data Science and coauthor of Smart Cities, Smart Future, The Executive’s Guide to Enterprise Social Media Strategy, and Partnering with the CIO. He is also the ghostwriter of more than a dozen respected business books and hundreds of articles on a wide range of business and technology topics.
Dr. Brian A. Dixon, Executive Editor
Brian A. Dixon is a professor of English at Goodwin University. He has served as the assistant editor of ATQ: The American Transcendental Quarterly and as the editor of Revelation: Apocalyptic Art and Literature. He is the author of Sex for Dinner, Death for Breakfast: James Bond and the Body (2025) and has edited volumes including Figures of Freedom: Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis (2024), the acclaimed television retrospective Back to Frank Black: A Return to Chris Carter’s Millennium (2012), and Columbia & Britannia: An Alternate History (2009), nominated for the Sidewise Award for Alternate History.