Education

Postdoctoral Fellow, International Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies, Vanderbilt University

Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Criticism and Theory, University of California at Irvine

Ph.D., University of Florida:  History of Poetry and Poetics

M.A., Villanova University:  British and American Literature

B.A., Hofstra University:  British and American Literature

Professional Experience

Professor and Paul and Carol Daube Sutton Chair in English, George Lynn Cross Research
            Professor, University of Oklahoma, 1997-present.

Visiting Professor of Comparative Studies, Florida Atlantic University, 2003

Visiting Professor, University of Debrecen, Hungary, Summer 2002

Professor of English, Purdue University, 1986-97. 
Co-coordinator of Graduate Concentration in Theory and Cultural Studies, 1993-96; Member
            of Participating Faculty in Comparative Literature Program, 1986-97; Co-director of
            Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Philosophy and Literature, 1986-93

Distinguished Visiting Professor of English, University of Memphis, 1991

Professor of English, Mercer University, 1985-86

Associate Professor, Mercer University, 1977-85

Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature, University of Tampere, Finland, 1979

Assistant Professor, Mercer University, 1973-77

Interim Assistant Professor of Humanities, University of Florida, 1972-73