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.  Member of Specialty Area in Theory,
            Media, and Cultural Studies

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