Dan McCullough was born and raised in Rhode Island. Before coming to academia, he spent several years in the Teamsters’ Union in Providence and later also worked several years as an offshore commercial fisherman in Point Judith, Rhode Island.
After moving to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, he worked many years as a bartender, while running his own welding and blacksmith business, and working as a commercial shellfisherman. He has captained ocean-going sailboats off the coast of New England for many years and has also sailed among the Hebrides Islands of Scotland, and extensively throughout most of the Caribbean.
He has been teaching college philosophy for four decades. He did his undergraduate work at Providence College and completed his graduate studies at Boston University, where he was a teaching assistant. He has taught at the University of Massachusetts, and Suffolk University, and is currently tenured full professor of philosophy at Cape Cod Community College, where he has received the Excellence in Teaching Award.
He has been the resident medical ethicist on the Cape Cod Hospital Ethics Committee for the past 20 years, and is currently the consulting medical ethicist to Falmouth Hospital. He has written several articles on medical ethics published in such places as South Africa, Sweden, and Israel and is the recipient of a Fulbright Grant to study medical ethics in the People’s Republic of China.
As a playwright, all of his five plays have seen full stage productions in southeastern New England. He is the author of dozens of short stories and his work has been printed in several journals. He has published well over 1,000 newspaper columns and articles in the Cape Cod Times, The Providence Journal, and other periodicals. He is the author of three books. His current book,
“Out of the Cave”, is presently in its fourth printing.
He lives by the fishing village of Rock Harbor on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.