Now if he was a professor of engineering, computer science, etc, he could just be someone working at a real job who like to teach and is doing so part time. But a professor of English is likely to be a failed writer, or one who has shot his bolt with one or two stories or books sold, and then no takers for his later works.
The sad thing is that this pitiful butt-head was ever paid anything to teach anyone at a US college. Apparently he was a part-time "creative writing" teacher..... which can (often) mean even less logic, rigor, and intellectual content than most of the present-day humanities and social sciences. I spent too much time in graduate school and around campuses (in my wasted youth), and some of the most vapid pseudo-intellectuals I've ever met were creative writing teachers, surpassed only by pathetic ESL ("English as a Second Language") teachers. Something about a subject having no standards at all and being widely known as sitting at the bottom of the academic totem pole makes writing or ESL attractive these bozos.