EDUCATION


woodcut of plague

Illustration from Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year (1722),
an important early example of realist fiction
POSTGRADUATE:

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers. "Rereading Realist Fiction: Balzac, Eliot, Mann." Dir. Lilian R. Furst, University of North Carolina -- Chapel Hill. Conducted at Stanford University.

GRADUATE:

Ph.D., English, Temple University (1990). MAJOR AREA: Modernist Fiction. MINOR AREAS: American literature, critical theory. DISSERTATION: "The Second Infinity: Cyclic Form and the Reader's Response in Milan Kundera's Laughable Loves and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting." Committee: Daniel T. O'Hara (director), Philip Stevick, Alan Wilde. (abstract: DAI, 51.8 1991 2740-A)

M.A., Literature and Creative Writing -- Fiction, Temple University (1986).

UNDERGRADUATE:

B.A., History, Temple University (1981). Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa

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