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• Ph.D., French Literature, Indiana University Bloomington, October 1997
• M. A., French Literature, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, August 1992
• Licence, English, University of Avignon, France, June 1989
• D.E.U.G, English, University of Avignon, France, June 1988

Teaching Experience

• Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, Â鶹ÊÓƵappÏÂÔØ, 1998-Present
• Visiting Instructor, Department of Foreign Languages, Indiana State University, 1997-1998
• Associate Instructor, Department of French and Italian, Indiana University, 1992-1997
• Teaching Assistant, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1989-1992

Dissertation

Reflets de la science alchimique de la Renaissance à la fin d u XVIIe siècle dans les œuvres de Rabelais, Cyrano de Bergerac, Béroalde de Verville et Clovis Hesteau de Nuysement

Publications

• "Clovis Hesteau de Nuysement: un certain désird’ immortalité". Essays in French Literature. 2001
• "L’Or et l’émeraude: sur la signification alchimiqu e de quelques personnages de Notre-Dame de Paris". Romanic Review, vol.89 n.2 (1998) 199-206.
• "L'Alchimie dans Le Songe de Poliphile". Revue des Langues Romanes, XCIX n.1 (1995) 111-121.
• "Du laboratoire à l’oratoire: alchimie et christianisme au XVIIe siècle". Submitted to Cahiers du di x-septième siècle
• "Extravagances temporelles chez Béroalde de Verville et Clovis Hesteau de Nuysement". Submitted to Cahiers du dix-septième siècle.

Conferences

• "Rêves alchimiques au dix-septième siècle" Society for Interdisciplinary French 17th Century Studies (SE 17). Bloomington, Indiana, November 2-4, 2000.
• "From the Laboratory to the Oratory: Alchemy and Christianity in Seventeenth Century France." The Foreign Languages Department Faculty Seminar. Â鶹ÊÓƵappÏÂÔØ, May 3, 2000.
• "Du laboratoire à l’oratoire: alchimie et christianisme au XVI Ie siècle". Society for Interdisciplinary French 17th Century Studies (SE 17). Lexington, Kentucky, November 11-13, 1999.
• Le Moyen de parvenir: (anti?) roman (alchimique?)". Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, April 1998.
• "Extravagances temporelles chez Béroalde de Verville et Clovis Hesteau de Nuysement". Society for Interdisciplinary French 17th Century Studies (SE17). New Bern, NC, October 1997.
• "Cyrano de Bergerac ou le Sel des Philosophes". North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature (NASSCFL). Austin, TX, April 1996.
• "Des Livres muets pour une rose absente". Graduate Student Organization Colloquium. Indiana University, March 1994.
• "L'Alchimie dans Notre-Dame de Paris". Graduate Student Organization Colloquium. Indiana University, March 1993.
• "Quelques stratégies narratives chez Proust et Robb e-Grillet: Carcassonne et ses environs". Graduate Colloquium, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, April 1990.

• 16th and 17th century French literature
• Alchemy and literature from the Middle Ages to the present
• 17th century opera