M.A. Master of Science (1999), School of Education and Social
Policy, Northwestern University
B.A. Honors Degree (1968), Comparative Literature, University of
Wisconsin, Madison
- Honors Program, 4 years
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Senior Honors Thesis: “The Influence of
Nietzsche’s Concept of Nihilism on the Works of Albert
Camus"
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Junior Year at the University of Freiburg, Germany (1966–1967)
Ph.D. (1982), M.A. (1970) in Comparative Studies in Literature,
The University of Chicago
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Dissertation: "The Faust Legend: Popular Formula and Modern
Novel: A Study of the Historia von D. Johann Fausten of
1587 and Thomas Mann’s Novel Doktor Faustus"
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Team-teaching with Associate Professor: Contemporary German
Literature
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Presentations on Gunter Grass and on the Faust Legend to
various German and Comparative Literature classes, graduate
and undergraduate
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M.A. Thesis: “Ambiguity in Gunter Grass’s
Die Blechtrommel”