BA, MA, PhD University of California - Berkeley 1987, 1990, 1996
Graduate student instructor, University of California - Berkeley; assistant professor of French, University of Oklahoma
French eighteenth century literature and philosophy, Rousseau, French autobiography
The narrative of conversion in French autobiography, the Libertine novel
Character and Conversion in Autobiography: Augustine, Montaigne, Descartes, Rousseau, and Sartre (University of Virginia Press, 2004); Introduction to Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality (Barnes and Noble, 2009); Introduction and translation of the preface to Rousseau's Confessions (Barnes and Noble, 2005); "Fables of the Self and Subject: On Cartesian Autobiography With and Against Augustine" (Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature XXXI, 60, 2004);?"The Inversion of Conversion: Rousseau's Rewriting of Augustinian Autobiography," (Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture 28, March 1999); "Errancy and Libertine Education in Crebillon Fils's Les Egarements du coeur et de l'espirit," (French Forum, v. 20, no. 2, May, 1995)
University of Oklahoma Junior Faculty Fellowship 1997; Marcel Lemer Scholarship, University of California - Berkeley 1995-96; Oustanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of California - Berkeley 1994-95