M.A. (German Literature and Philosophy)      University of Tübingen, Germany
Ph.D. (German Literature)                                 University of Virginia Specialty Fields

German 18th to 20th Century Literature

German Film

European Philosophy of the 17th and 18th Century

Religious Thought in 18th-Century Germany

Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Johann Gottfried Herder

Spinoza and German 18th century literature

Literature, Philosophy and Religion in 18th-Century Germany

Goethe’s Religious Thought

Goethe’s Narratives and Spinoza