Ph.D.   English, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
M.A.   English, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 
B.A.     English, La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA 

Thomas Hardy

William Faulkner

The British Novel

Shakespeare/Renaissance British Drama

Literature and Science

 “James M. Cain.” The Guide to United States Popular Culture, ed. Ray P. Browne & Pat Browne, 2001: 132.
 “Can Plants Hear Bassoons? Science and the Sublime.” Papers on Language and Literature, Winter 1998: 19-56.
 “This pageantry of Fear: The Sublime in Thomas Hardy.” Cahiers Victoriens and Edwardiens, October 1996: 85-109.
 “Style and Truth: Reflections on the Language of Science.” Papers on Language and Literature, Summer 1994: 257-284.
 “History and Fabrication in Kurt Vonnegut’s Hocus Pocus.” The Critical Response to Kurt Vonnegut, ed. Leonard Mustazza, 1994: 313-325.
 “Perception is a Sacred Cow: The Narrator and Ike Snopes in William Faulkner’s The Hamlet.”  The Faulkner Journal, Summer 1992: 15-32.
 “Darwinism as Tragedy in Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge.”  The CEA Critic, Fall 1985: 69-74.

Epic Poetry

Tragedy

The British Novel

Shakespeare

Renaissance British Drama

Literature and Culture