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NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, 1993 Course: “Theories of Satire” Instructor: John Sitter, Emory University Projects: The Satire of Matthew Prior’s “Alma” (poem) Charlotte Lennox’s Female Quixote and Satirical Responses
Folger Institute Seminar, Folger Shakespeare Library, 1992 Course: “Re-Viewing Tudor Literary History” Instructor: Arthur F. Kinney, University of Massachusetts Project: Presentation on “Acts of Enclosure and the Tudor Literary Imagination”
Folger Shakespeare Library Weekend Workshop, 1992 Course: “Shakespeare and the Concept of Character” Instructors: Guest lecturers on topics related to theme
NEH Summer Institute, Folger Shakespeare Library, 1990 Course: “Shakespeare and the History of Taste” Instructor: Joseph Price, Penn State University Projects; “Advertising Shakespeare in Eighteenth-Century Dublin: Thomas Sheridan and the Smock Alley Theatre in 1753” “Reception History of Coriolanus”
Ph.D. The Catholic University of America, 1987 Dissertation: “Mary Cooper: Eighteenth-Century London Bookseller, 1743-1761”
An enumerative bibliography with prefatory essay on the career of Mary Cooper, who was active in London from 1743 to 1761.
M.A. The Catholic University of America, 1982
As part of the course work, I took
Folger Institute Seminar, 1983 Course: “English Poetic Forms, 1660-1899” Instructor: Stuart Curran, The University of Pennsylvania Project: The Poetry of Mark Akenside
B.A., Magna Cum Laude, The University of St. Thomas, 1980
Non-degree Related Graduate studies at the Centre for Thomistic Studies, The University of St. Thomas, 1981 Courses: Nineteenth-Century British Philosophy