Degrees

Ph.D., English, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1990.
Dissertation: "John McPhee's Rhetoric of Balance and Perspective,"Director: Don Richard Cox.
 
M.A., English, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1983.
Thesis: "Wallace Stevens' Illusion of Distance in Landscape Description," Director: B.J. Leggett

B.A., English, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1980.
Minor: French