Josh Pachter

[excerpted from author's website]
Josh Pachter was born in 1951 in New York. He earned a BA and an MA, both in Speech, at the University of Michigan. After teaching high school for three years in Michigan and college for two years in Pennsylvania, he moved overseas in 1979 and began offering a wide range of courses for the University of Maryland's European Division on American Army, Navy and Air Force bases in England, Germany, Holland, Greece, Spain, Bahrain and Pakistan. He moved back to the US in 1991, and taught at Cuyahoga Community College (where he also advised the student newspaper) and Ashland University, both in northeast Ohio, until the spring of 2006. That fall, he took a full-time position in the communication department at the Prince Frederick campus of the College of Southern Maryland. In March of 2007, the campus' student association named him one of the two winners of its “Peace Prize” for innovative teaching and dedication to education. In the fall of 2011, he accepted a full-time position as a member of the Communication Studies and Theater faculty at Northern Virginia Community College's Loudoun Campus, a position from which he retired after eleven years, in 2022. He still teaches courses in film, literature, and communication, though, as a volunteer at the Lifelong Learning Institute of Chesterfield and for pay at the Brandermill Woods retirement community, both in Midlothian (VA), where he moved in 2020. Josh is also a writer, editor, and translator.