• Ph.D., Yale University
• M.Phil., Yale University
• M.A. Yale University
• Agregation de Philosophie & Lettres, University of Brussels (U.L.B.)

• At SUA since 2005
• 2003 - 2005, Visiting Professor, Columbia University
• 1996 - 2003, Associate Professor, Temple University
• 1993 - 1996, Associate Professor, Goucher College
• 1983 - 1993, Associate Professor, Rice University
• 1974 - 1983, Assistant Professor, Columbia University
• 1972 - 1974, Instructor, Yale University

• Transnational Literature; History & Theory of Criticism
• Herodotus, Greek Historians, Nietzsche
• Shakespeare, Spenser, Montaigne

• "Antique Myth & Modern Mind," Journal of Modern Literature, 2003
• "Budaeus's Philological Imagination," Modern Language Notes, (MLN-Hopkins Press), 2004
• "Politics, Pedagogy & Scholarship (a special issue in honor of Carol Kay)," Ed. Annals of Scholarship: Art Practices & the Human Sciences in a Global Culture, 2002
• "La civilite nouvelle: 1500-1530," Lecture, Colloquium at the University of Toronto, 2002
• "Old Gems, New verses: Remy Belleau & du Bellay," MLA, 2000
• "The Narratives of the Life of Paul de Man," Narratology Society, Dartmouth College, 1999
• "Herodotus & Budaeus," Renaissance Society of America, 1998
• "Is it Really American? On Walter Abish's Eclipse Fever," Colloquium on U.S. Nationalisms (Dartmouth College), 1993
• Contending Kingdoms (with P. Rudnytsky), Wayne State University Press, 1992
• The Renaissance: Foucault's lost Chance?, Rutgers University Press, 1988

• Shakespeare
• The European Novel
• Classical Literature

• American Council of Learned Socities (ACLS), 1992
• Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh (U..K.), 1989
• National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH),1987-88
• Mellon Fellowship, 1976-77
• Chamberlain Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching the Core Curriculum (Columbia University), 1979
• Harvard University Fellowship, Villa I Tatti Centre(Florence, italy), 1975-76
• Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Fellowship (C.N.R.S.), 1967-68

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