BA Williams College 1977; Licence es lettres Strasbourg 1979; Maitrise Avignon 1983; MA, PhD Yale University 1982, 1988
French Renaissance literature, 17th century French literature
17th century French literature, especially Pascal; French Renaissance literature, especially Montaigne; history of rhetoric; literary theory; French influences on British and American literature
Articles in Romance Notes, Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature, French Forum, Dalhousie French Studies
Picker Fellowship; American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship