Purdue University, Lafayette, IN: 2003-Present
Department: English
Area: Literary Studies
GPA: 3.91/4.0
Ph.D. Student, Expected Graduation: May 2010
Preliminary Exams Passed: September 2008
Prospectus Defense Date:
Reading Committee: Geraldine Friedman (chair), Dino Felluga, Arkady Plotnitsky
M.A. Graduation Date: May 7, 2005
M.A. Thesis: “Pursuing ‘Beauty’ to ‘Truth’: A Deleuzian Analysis of Keats’s ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’”
Reading Committee: Geraldine Friedman (chair), Dino Felluga, Arkady Plotnitsky
Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL: 2000-2003
Major: English
Minor: Psychology
Minor: Pre-Law
GPA: 3.67/4.0
Graduated: May 11, 2003
Degree: B.A. Cum Laude
Honors Thesis: “‘A Father Killed; a Mother Stained’: Hamlet and Orestes”
Honors Thesis Advisor: David Raybin
Introductory Composition at Purdue