M.A. Master of Science (1999), School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University
B.A. Honors Degree (1968), Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Honors Program, 4 years
- Senior Honors Thesis: “The Influence of Nietzsche’s Concept of Nihilism on the Works of Albert Camus”
- Junior Year at the University of Freiburg, Germany (1966–1967)
Ph.D. (1982), M.A. (1970) in Comparative Studies in Literature, The University of Chicago
- Dissertation: ”The Faust Legend: Popular Formula and Modern Novel: A Study of the Historia von D. Johann Fausten of 1587 and Thomas Mann’s Novel Doktor Faustus”
- Team-teaching with Associate Professor: Contemporary German Literature
- Presentations on Günter Grass and on the Faust Legend to various German and Comparative Literature classes, graduate and undergraduate
- M.A. Thesis: “Ambiguity in Günter Grass’s Die Blechtrommel”