Education
Bachelor in English, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1976. Master of Arts in English, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1978. Doctor of Philosophy in English, Yale University, New Haven, 1983.
academic administrator humanities professor
Bachelor in English, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1976. Master of Arts in English, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1978. Doctor of Philosophy in English, Yale University, New Haven, 1983.
Izaak Killam post-doctoral fellow Dalhousie University, 1983—1984. Andrew Mellon post-doctoral fellow Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1984—1985. Assistant professor English McGill University, 1985—1989, associate professor English, 1989—1996, associate dean faculty graduate studies & research, 1991—1993, chairman English department, 1996—1999, professor English, 1996—2001.
Professor English, associate to acting dean graduate school Emory University, 2001—2003. Francis Moody Newman professor humanities, dean Rice University School Humanities, 2003—2009. Hortense and Tobias Lewin distinguished professor in humanities in arts & sciences, dean arts and sciences Washington University, St, Louis, since 2009, faculty member English department, since 2009.
Married Sarah Westphal-Wihl.