• Ph.D., May 2000, Department of English, University of Georgia. Dissertation: “Clara Reeve’s School for Widows”—the first critical edition of eighteenth-century novelist and critic Clara Reeve’s 1791 novel. Director: Elizabeth Kraft.
• M.A., May 1995, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania.
• B.A., May 1993, summa cum laude,  Rosemont College, Pennsylvania.
• Spring, 1991, L’Istituto Lorenzo de’Medici, Florence. Studies in Italian language, literature and culture.
• Spring, 1992, Oxford University, Studies in English literature, history and politics.
• Summer and Fall, 1999, Oxford University, Additional study and research: pursued individual tutorials with Oxford faculty members as well as dissertation research.