Born in Alabama, then raised in Hotlanta, So. Illinois, and the Old Dominion, Lance earned his B.A. and M.A. from Johns Hopkins. Detour: Lance lived in Seattle for a few years- working at a film archive, writing music reviews on grrrl punk and electropop, and making a living at Microsoft. Before arriving at Penn in 2001, he studied Irish literature in Dublin, worked at Harper’s Magazine in NYC, held a fellowship in medieval Nordic literature in Oslo, and earned an M.Sc. in history of medicine at the Imperial College of Medicine in London. Currently, Lance is a Ph.D. candidate and lecturer in the English Department at Penn, teaching classes in film and medical related literature. During the 2005-06 year, he co-directed Penn’s Program in English Literature at King’s College London and held a research post at the British Film Institute. Since moving to Philly, Lance has worked at the Mutter Museum of medical history (giving tours of its freakish collections of skeletons and Siamese twins), but has most enjoyed working at the Eastern State Penitentiary’s haunted house, where he performed as a homicidal doctor in the medical ward. (Sure beats those summers working in Colonial Williamsburg in 18th-century costume. Wool is hot in July!) Lance is also a graphic artist, idolizes Dolly Parton, bakes sweets like a fiend, and doesn’t hesitate to confess "I LOVE TV!"