PhD, French language and literature, Princeton University, 1980
MA, French language and literature, Princeton University, 1978
BA, French language and literature, Vanderbilt University, 1975
Current Research
The image of smoking and the smoker in French and francophone culture.
Selected Publications
“Promises and Challenges of Digital Libraries and Document Image Analysis: A Humanist’s Perspective.” Proceedings of the 2004 International Workshop on Document Image Analysis for Libraries. Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 2004.
"De Villequier à Pont-l'Evêque: un palimpseste flaubertien?" La Revue des Lettres Modernes: Histoire des Idées et des Littératures. 1165-1172 (1994):169-86.
"Mediation, parasitism, and intertextuality in La Chartreuse de Parme." French Forum3 (Sept. 1992): 261-79.
"Volupté: récit d'un crime." Romanic Review 85.1 (Jan. 1994): 49-63.
"Métonymie et trahison dans L'Education sentimentale." Nineteenth-Century French Studies4 (1991): 566-582.
"Some thoughts on Flaubert and Intertextuality." Mid-Hudson Language Studies2 (1989): 65-74.
Courses Taught
FR 211/212: Introduction to French language and culture
FR 305: Reading French Historians
FR 350: Modern French Short Story
FR 525: French for Reading Knowledge
FR 482: The Image of Smoking and the Smoker in French literature and culture