B.A., summa cum laude, 1992
Lycoming College,
Williamsport,
Pennsylvania
Major: English; Minor: Philosophy
Honors thesis: "Art and Rhetoric: The Writings of
Kenneth Patchen"
M.A., English, 1994
University of Maryland,
College Park, Maryland
Thesis: "Intimate Contributors: Religion and Structure in the
Novels of
William Dean Howells"
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