• Certificate in Spanish and six weeks intensive Spanish study, Universidad La Salle, Mexico City, Summer 2000
• Ph.D. in French Literature, Specialization in the Nineteenth Century, Minor in Literary Theory, Indiana University Bloomington, 1995
• D.E.A. de Lettres Modernes, Université de Lille III, France, 1989
• Maîtrise de Lettres Modernes, Université d’Aix-en-Provence I, France, 1987
• M.A. in French Literature, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1986
• B.A. in English, Minors in French and Physical Education, Wartburg College,
• Waverly, Iowa, 1984

Publications

Journal Articles

• “Pygmalion Politics in Balzac’s Le chef d’oeuvre inconnu”: French Studies Bulletin 30 (2009): 17-19.
• “Coal Miners’ Daughters:  Representations of Women in Germinal, Matewan, and Harlan County, USA”: Excavatio XXII (July 2007): 73-86.
• “The Two Faces of Eve:  Villiers’ response to Zola’s La Faute de l’abbé Mouret”:  Excavatio XVI (October 2002):  179-187.
• “Men Looking at Art:  Aesthetic Voyeurism in Two Novels by Emile Zola”:  Excavatio XIV (October 2001):  173-185.
• “Painting on the Periphery:  Women Artists in Three French Texts”:  The Journal for the Association of the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts (Spring 2001):  51-83.  Guest Editor for the special volume titled “Creating Women Creating:  19th-Century Representations of the Female Imagination and the Woman Artist.”
• “Digestive Divas:  Women and Food Problems in Two Novels by J.-K. Huysmans”:  Excavatio XIII (September 2000):  100-105.
• “Figuring Frames:  Painting as Inspiration for a New Literary Aesthetic in Two Novels by J.-K. Huysmans”:  The Journal for the Association of the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts (Spring 1998):  53-66.
• “Men Looking at Women Through Art:  Male Gaze and Spectatorship in Three Nineteenth-Century Novels”: The Frontenac Review  10-11 (1993-1994):  8-34.

Review

• “L’Hirondelle et Le Corbeau:  Écrits sur Gérard de Nerval”: Nineteenth-Century French Studies 37, no. 1-2 (2008-2009):  167-169.

Items Accepted to be Published

• “The Mummy’s Dance:  Staged Transpositions of Théophile Gautier’s Egyptian Tales” - Translations/Transpositions:  A Conference in Honor of Rosemary Lloyd  -article to be published in the conference proceedings book.
• “Dancing into the Spotlight:  Louise Bertin and La Esmeralda” - article to be published in the journal Women in French Studies.
• “Hugo, Louise Bertin et La Esmeralda” - lecture transcription to be published in the journal L’Écho Hugo: Bulletin des Amis de Victor Hugo.