Indiana University (Bloomington), Ph.D., French Literature, October 1997.
University of Nebraska at Lincoln, M. A., French Literature, August 1992.
University of Avignon (France), Licence, English, June 1989.
University of Avignon (France), D.E.U.G, English, June 1988.

Assistant Professor. Department of Foreign Languages, University of New Orleans. 1998-Present

Visiting Instructor. Department of Foreign Languages, Indiana State University. 1997-1998

Associate Instructor. Department of French and Italian, Indiana University. 1992-1997

Teaching Assistant. University of Nebraska-Lincoln. 1989-1992

Reflets de la science alchimique de la Renaissance à la fin d u XVIIe siècle dans les œuvres de Rabelais, Cyrano de Bergerac, Béroalde de Verville et Clovis Hesteau de Nuysement.

"Clovis Hesteau de Nuysement: un certain désird’ immortalité". Essays in French Literature. 2001

"L’Or et l’émeraude: sur la signification alchimiqu e de quelques personnages de Notre-Dame de Paris". Romanic Review, vol.89 n.2 (1998) 199-206.

"L'Alchimie dans Le Songe de Poliphile". Revue des Langues Romanes, XCIX n.1 (1995) 111-121.

"Du laboratoire à l’oratoire: alchimie et christianisme au XVIIe siècle". Submitted to Cahiers du di x-septième siècle.

"Extravagances temporelles chez Béroalde de Verville et Clovis Hesteau de Nuysement". Submitted to Cahiers du dix-septième siècle.

"Rêves alchimiques au dix-septième siècle" Society for Interdisciplinary French 17th Century Studies (SE 17). Bloomington, Indiana, November 2-4, 2000.

"From the Laboratory to the Oratory: Alchemy and Christianity in Seventeenth Century France." The Foreign Languages Department Faculty Seminar. University of New Orleans, May 3, 2000.

"Du laboratoire à l’oratoire: alchimie et christianisme au XVI Ie siècle". Society for Interdisciplinary French 17th Century Studies (SE 17). Lexington, Kentucky, November 11-13, 1999.

"Le Moyen de parvenir: (anti?) roman (alchimique?)". Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, April 1998.

"Extravagances temporelles chez Béroalde de Verville et Clovis Hesteau de Nuysement". Society for Interdisciplinary French 17th Century Studies (SE17). New Bern, NC, October 1997.

"Cyrano de Bergerac ou le Sel des Philosophes". North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature (NASSCFL). Austin, TX, April 1996.

"Des Livres muets pour une rose absente". Graduate Student Organization Colloquium, Indiana University, March 1994.

"L'Alchimie dans Notre-Dame de Paris". Graduate Student Organization Colloquium, Indiana University, March 1993.

"Quelques stratégies narratives chez Proust et Robb e-Grillet: Carcassonne et ses environs". Graduate Colloquium, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, April 1990.