Education
BA cum laude with high honors in French, Davidson College, North Carolina, 1974. Postgraduate study, Université de Paris IV and Institut d'études politiques de Paris, 1974—1975. Master of Arts, Middlebury College, 1975. Doctor of Philosophy, Duke University, 1981.
Career
Part-time Instructor of French, Duke University, 1976—1978. Instructor to Assistant Professor, Davidson College, 1978—1982. Assistant Professor, Hanover College, 1982—1987. Sewanee: The University of the South, Associate Professor, then Professor, 1987-2017. Chair Sewanee Department of French & French Studies, 1994—2000.
Faculty Director of Junior Year in France, Davidson College, 1979-1981. Study abroad director for the Department of French, Hanover College, 1982-1987. Founder of Sewanee in France summer program, 1988, and Director, 1989-1996. Founder of Sewanee Semester in Paris program, 2014, and Director, falls 2015 and 2016.
Elected to the Delegate Assembly of the Modern Language Association, 1988-1991. Elected to the Conseil d'Administration of the Société Marivaux, 1989-1995. Camargo Foundation Fellow, spring semester 1992, and Camargo Foundation Scholar-in-Residence and Visiting Program Director, fall semester 1995.
Membership
Alumni coordinator of Davidson College's memorial Ghigo-Embry-Meeks Fund, since 1987. Coordinator of Sewanee's Bates-Poe Fund for Study in France, since 2014. Advisory board member of three different study-in-France programs. Member of the Board of Directors, the Poe Museum of Richmond, VA.
Member Modern Language Association (elected to the Delegate Assembly, 1988-1991), Société Marivaux (elected to the Conseil d'Administration), American Association of Teachers French, American Society for 18th Century Studies, Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association.