• Ph.D., University of Chicago, English, 1991
  Dissertation: “Mysteries of Gender: The Development of ‘Interindividuality’ in the Harriet Vane Novels of
  Dorothy L. Sayers.”
  Advisors: William Veeder and Lawrence Rothfield
  
  
• M.A., University of Chicago, English, 1986
  Thesis: “‘Within this Narrow Cell’: The Problem of Compensation in Joyce’s ‘A Little Cloud’”



• B.A., Hope College, English, 1985
  Attended Hope Summer School in Vienna, Austria, 1984

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