DUEL, Licence es Lettres Modernes, Maitrise d'Anglais Universite de Strasbourg; MA, PhD Rice University 1982, 1984
Indiana University; University of Houston; Rice University; University of Michigan-Dearborn
19th-century French literature, French theater, the novel, French literature in translation
Victor Hugo, Dumas Fils, Romantic drama, Emile Zola and Naturalism, Intertextuality, Feminist literary criticism and theory
coeditor of The French Novel from Lafayette to Desvignes (New Paradigm Press, 1995); Victor Hugo: Oeuvres et critique (1982-1983)(Minard, 1992); contributions to Critical Bibliography of French Literature: The XIX Century (Syracuse University Press, 1991); articles in Analecta Husserliana, The French Review, The French Novel from Lafayette to Desvignes, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Symposium, Travaux de Litterature, Excavatio; reviews in L'Esprit Createur, Nineteenth-Century French Studies
Referee, Nineteenth-Century French Studies; Editorial Board, Studies on Lucette Desvignes and the Twentieth Century,
ACLS travel grant; NEH Summer Fellowship; Picker Fellowship