Education

B.A., English, Speech, & Drama
1980

M.A., English
1981

Thesis:  "The High-Level Fool as Critic: Mark Twain and Music

director:
Carl R. Dolmetsch

M.A., Creative Writing
1983

Thesis: "An Agony, a Play, and a Story:
Fictions at Hollins"

director:
Richard H.W. Dillard

Ph.D.
20th Century British
& American LIterature
1993

dissertation:

"Naturalism, the New Journalism, and the Twentieth-Century American Nonfiction Novel about Homicide"

director:
Keith Cushman