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Degrees:  B.A. in English and French, Brigham Young University, 1970; University of Paris Paris, France, Studied one year, 1968-69, under the auspices of Sweet Briar College. Seventeenth-century French literature including Molière and Corneille, Shakespeare and Milton at the British Institute. Nineteenth-century French art and French grammar; Ph.D. with distinction, Drew University, May 1999; M.Phil. with distinction, Drew University, October 1995.
Prepared a dissertation on Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "The Night Dreaming Imagination." This dissertation collects Coleridge's scattered insights into the dreaming imagination and establishes his Notebooks as primary texts. Coleridge's theory of the binary opposition between the day and night imagining mind greatly expands Coleridge's theory of imagination.

Areas of Specialization: Comprehensive examination subjects included Shakespeare as major figure, British Romanticism, American Romanticism, Literary Critical Theory and Nineteenth-Century European Intellectual History. Other courses in Milton, Stevens, Browning, and Tennyson.

Courses taught at Drew:  Adjunct Faculty, Fall 2006, College of Liberal Arts, “Whole Texts in Unruly Times: Studies in British Romanticism”; Adjunct Faculty, Fall 2005, College of Liberal Arts, “Rebels with a Cause: British Writers of the Nineteenth Century”; Instructor, Spring 2004, Arts/Letters Graduate Program, "English Romantic Poets in Italy"; Instructor, Fall 2003, Arts/Letters Graduate Program, "Shakespeare's Plays for the Globe"; Tutor, Coleridge Studies, and Advisor to doctoral student preparing for dissertation, Spring 2002; Instructor, Summer 2001, College of Liberal Arts, English Romantic Poets.; Instructor, Spring 2001, Arts/Letters Graduate Program, “English Romantic Poets in Italy.”; Instructor, core course in Literary Analysis, Spring and Fall Semesters, 1996.; Instructor, English Composition, 1991-1992.

Courses taught elsewhere: At Seton Hall University: Instructor, Introduction to Literature, World Literature I and II, and Nineteenth-Century British Literature 1997-99. Instructor, Shakespeare and Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Fall Semester 1997. Instructor, Great Books I, half Fall Semester 1996.

Recent Publications and Presentations: “Coleridge's Dream Characters” presented at the annual Wordsworth Conference, Grasmere, England, “Coleridge's Theory of the Day-Night Dreaming Imagination,” The Coleridge Bulletin, 2001, lectured on Shakespeare's Festive Comedies for the South Orange/Maplewood Adult School, presented a paper “The Romantic Poets Attend the Opera” at the NCSA, in Roanoke, Va.