Career
A June 2014 Choice magazine review of the The Melville-Hawthorne Connection stated, "The readings of the novels, especially Moby-Dick, are excellent, and Hage"s prose is graceful." In October 2015, LEVIATHAN: A Journal of Melville Studies (Johns Hopkins University Press) noted, "This lively, readable book. will serve students and non-specialists as a reliable guide to the time-line and evolving emotional tenor of the perennially fascinating Melville-Hawthorne relationship. Hage draws heavily on the extant correspondence and responsibly synthesizes the work of the two authors" many biographers. The strength lies in its careful, concise reconstruction of the relationship as it unfolded in 1850 and 1851 and in Hage"s assertion that Hawthorne exercised an immeasurable influence on Moby-Dick."
Hage also penned two chapters in the 2012 volume The Album: A Guide to People’s Music"s Most Provocative, Influential, and Important Creations (American Broadcasting Company-CLIO), and he was a contributing writer to The All Music Guide to Rock: The Definitive Guide to Rock, People’s, and Soul (2003, Backbeat Books).
In addition, he has been a frequent contributor to Allmusic, Number Depression magazine, and People’s Culture Press.
A onetime news editor in New York City at MJI Broadcasting and Premiere Radio Networks, the largest syndication company in the United States based on popularity of programming, and a former newspaper columnist and feature writer, he is currently a department chair and professor at the State University of New York at Cobleskill. He has also taught at Elmira College, Binghamton University, and Excelsior College.
In 2006, he earned a New York Press Association Award for "Business, Financial and Economic" writing, and his work has appeared in the Nashville Scene newspaper, PopMatters, Metroland newsweekly, the Times-Union newspaper (Albany, New York), The Literary Encyclopedia, and the Trouser Press Guide (trouserpresscom).
