1980-1990. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ph.D. 1990.
Dissertation: "The Idea of the Exotic in Middle English Narrative Texts
of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries."
Dissertation Directors: Prof. George Kane and Prof. Edward Donald Kennedy.
1979-1980. Georgetown University, Washington, D. C. M.A.1980.
Thesis: "Piers Plowman: A Figural Narrative."
Thesis Director: Prof. Penn Rodion Szittya.
1975-1979. Canisius College, Buffalo, New York. BA magna cum laude 1979.
TEACHING
Northeastern University.
Professor, 2001.
Associate Professor of English, 1994-2001.
Assistant Professor of English, 1990-94.
ABD Instructor, 1986-90.
Wellesley College.
Visiting Professor, Spring 2006.
2001-2002.
Graduate courses: medieval literature (Chaucer, romance, literature and culture, Ph.D.
and M.A.), composition/rhetoric theory and methods, contemporary British novel.
Undergraduate courses: medieval literature (Chaucer, romance, Arthurian literature,
literature and culture, medievalism), film and text (Arthurian), literary theory, romance, fantasy
and science fiction (including J.R.R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis), children's literature, history of
the English language, contemporary African-American novel, contemporary British novel, magic
realism, introduction to linguistics, basic writing, introduction to composition, introduction to
literature.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Teaching Fellow, 1984-85.
Teaching Assistant, 1980-84.
ADMINISTRATIVE
Director of the Writing Programs, 1987-.