University of Texas at Austin 
     Ph.D., Computers and English Studies, 2001.

National Endowment for the Humanities
      Fellowship, Rabelais and the Renaissance Sense of the Comic, Vanderbilt University, 1991.
      Fellowship, American and British Children's Classics, Princeton University, 1990.

Bread Loaf School of English (Lincoln College, Oxford) 
     Master of Arts, English Literature; 1989.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 
     Bachelor of Arts, English; Honors, Creative Writing; John Motley Morehead Scholar, 1982.

State University of New York
     Teaching Certificate, English 7 - 12, 1992