Daniel GardnerDaniel Gardner is an assistant professor of English at Cerritos College where he teaches composition and literature. He earned his PhD in English from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2014 with a dissertation examining the interplay betwen popular cultural representations of the mythic American West and early twentieth-century ethnic American fiction. As a member of the UCLA Library Special Collections’ Center for Primary Research and Training, Daniel processed the John Fante Papers. He and Stephen Cooper cocurated a 2011 exhibit of items from the collection titled John Fante: A Life in the Works. Read More Read Less