BA Swarthmore College 1974; MFA, PhD Princeton University 1977, 1981
Modern European art, contemporary American art, 20th century architecture
German romantic and neoclassical art, Pablo Picasso, historicism and the arts
Abstraction, Non-Objectivity, and Realism: Twentieth-Century Paintings from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1987); coauthor, "New Light on Picasso's ,La Vie" (Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978); "Medieval or Renaissance? The Imitation of Fifteenth-Century Art by German Romantic Artists" (Selected Papers in Medievalism, 1988), "Turner and Rome, Raphael and the Fornarina" (Studies in Romanticism,, 1987), "Cyrano de Bergerac and Edouard Manet's Frontispiece Etchings" (Burlington Magazine, 1986); "A Revised Reconstruction of the Casa Bartholdy Fresco Cycle" (Art Bulletin, 1984); contributing editor, Books for College Libraries, 3rd edition (1987)
NEH Fellowship for College Teachers (1985-86)