EDUCATION AND DISSERTATION:

Education:
Ph.D., 1997, Comparative Literature, Columbia University, New York.

M.Phil., 1991, Comparative Literature, Columbia University. Examination fields: poets and painters of the French and American Avant-Gardes; novels of postcolonial and British India; William Blake. Passed M.Phil. examination with distinction.

M.A., 1987, English, Columbia University. M.A. essay: “The Genealogical Method of Vico and Nietzsche.” Sponsor: Edward Said.

B.A., 1983, The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. English major. Graduated magna cum laude. Editor, The William & Mary Review.

Dissertation:
"Poetic Adaptations of Painterly Techniques in the French and American Avant-Gardes: Five Exemplary Cases." The dissertation examines the relationship between the poetry and art criticism of Guillaume Apollinaire, Pierre Reverdy, André Breton, Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery, as a function of avant-garde theory and practice and to demonstrate the influence of the French on the Americans. Sponsors: George Stade, Sylvère Lotringer. Readers: David Shapiro, Arthur Danto, Serge Gavronsky.