Education

Primary Education

May 2011: Ph.D. in German Studies.  Duke University, Durham, NC.

Dissertation chaired by William Collins Donahue: “Sympathy for the Devil: Volatile Masculinities in Recent German and American Literatures”

Aug 2005: B.A. in English, minor in German, summa cum laude.  Clemson University, Clemson, NC.

Study Abroad and Summer Programs

Jun-July 2008: competitive tuition and stipend grant (Duke) to attend the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University.

Sept 2007 – May 2008: competitive graduate exchange (Duke) at the Freie Universität Berlin.

May-Jun 2006, 2007: summer research exchange (Duke) at the Universität Duisburg-Essen.

Feb-Jul 2005: direct exchange (Clemson) at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg.

Sept 2004-Feb 2005: competitive exchange (Clemson) via the International Student Exchange Program (ISEP) at the Philipps-Universität Marburg.