• Ph.D., Stanford University
• B. A., Princeton University

• At SUA since 2003
• 1979 - 1986, Prof. of Literature & Humanities, Brandeis University
• 1972 - 1979, Prof. of Literature & Critical Theory, Cornell University
• 1981, Visiting Prof. of Literature & Criticism, Brown University
• Summer 1973, Prof.English & American Literature, Stanford University
• Summer 1972, Prof. of Critical Theory, UCLA

• Melville and Nietzsch
• Jazz Paradigms, Narrative Embodiments
• Benny Golson's autobiography

• The Political Responsibility of the Critic, Cornell Univ. Press, 1987
• Jazz as a Cultural Archive, Duke Univ. Press, 1995
• "Resistance to Theory," in Critical Theory and Performance, Reinelt and Roach, eds.; Univ. of Michigan Press, 1992
• "A World Without Whole Notes," Boundary 2 (vol. 18, no. 2; Summer '91); Duke Univ. Press, 1992
• "Postmodern Economics and Academic Cyberspace," Boundary 2 (vol. 21, no.3 Fall '94); Duke Univ. Press, 1994
• "Trumpet Madness: Reflections of Jazz Photography," Journal of Urban and Cultural Studies (vol. one, no. 2 1990); Univ. Massachusetts, 1990
• "The Question of Miles Davis," Boundary 2 (vol. 28, no. 2 Summer 2001); Duke Univ. Press, 2001
• "Forward Motion," The Jazz Cadence of American Culture, ed. Robert G. O'Meally,  Columbia Univ. Press, 2000
• "Pulling it All Together," Ocotillo (vol. one, no. 1), 1996
• "Lyrical Abstractions of Edward Said," Boundary 2 (vol. 25, no. 2 Summer '98) Duke Univ. Press, 1998

• Modes of Inquiry
• Nineteenth Century American Literature
• Core One: Enduring Questions of Humanity
• Core Two: Globalism
• Philosophy and Literature
• Literature of the Americas
• Introduction to Literature
• Contemporary Literature and Criticism
• Learning Cluster: Miles Davis and the Jazz Tradition
• Learning Cluster: Billie Holiday: Achievement and Legacy

• Bausch & Lomb Award, 1960
• Harvard Book Award, 1960
• Science, Technology & Humanities Fellow, Cornell, 1974-75
• Humanities Research Institute Fellow, Univ. of California, Irvine, 1989-90
• Michael Walzer Teaching Award, Brandeis, 1985
• Professor of the Year, SUA, 2003
• Honors, Princeton; Distinction, Stanford

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