Education

1998 - Ph.D. - Northwestern University, German Literature and Critical Thought

Dissertation: Der Mensch -- Metapher: Temporality, Identity, and the Concept of Language in the Works of Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis). (1998)
Committee: Géza von Molnár and Peter Fenves (chairs), Helmut Müller-Sievers

1992 - M.A. - University of Massachusetts, Comparative Literature

1988 - B.A. - University of Massachusetts, Amherst, English

1984-1987 - Three years of undergraduate study at the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany

Teaching and Research Interests

• German Romanticism
• 19th century German literature and culture
• German film
• German women’s writing
• European Fairy Tales
• European Romanticism
• American Transcendentalism

Courses Taught at Miami

• GER 101: Beginning German
• GER 102: Beginning German
• GER 111: Review of Basic German
• GER 231: Folk and Literary Fairy Tales
• GER 301: German Language Through the Media

 Membership in Professional Associations

• AATG (American Association of the Teachers of German)

Languages

• English (near native)
• French (working knowledge)
• German (native)