In a book of essays he edited with several other scholars, titled Mocking Bird Technologies: The Poetics of Parroting, Mimicry, and Other Starling Tropes (Fordham University Press, 2018), Fordham Professor of English Christopher GoGwilt, Ph.D., examined the role that starlings, parrots, and other mockingbirds play in literature, both as motifs and as metaphors. In this video he takes it a bit further.
Tom Stoelker
Tom Stoelker is senior staff writer and visual media coordinator for Fordham News. After fifteen years as a freelance designer, Tom shifted his focus to writing and photography. He graduated from Lehman College, CUNY where he majored in English literature and photography and he received his master's in journalism from Columbia University. His work has appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Wall Street Journal, and The Architect's Newspaper, where he was associate editor.
