Professor, Ph.D., Indiana University (1980)
Comparative literature and the other arts, Romanticism
The Infernal Return: The Recurrence of the Primordial in Films of the Reaction Years, 1977-1983 (2002) and Mediating Order and Chaos: The Water-Cycle in the Complex Adaptive Systems of Romantic Culture (2002)
The Musical Quarterly, The Opera Quarterly, Rhetoric Review, Literature/Film Quarterly, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, and other journals