My area of research is centered around the eighteenth up until 1829, particularly women’s writing, Exotisme, parody and the novel. A second field of studies in Postcolonial literature has drawn my attention; I have recently been working on literature of the Antilles in addition to continuing with research into the eighteenth century

• 1994 University of California Ph.D.
• 1990 University of California M.A.
• 1975 Loyola-Marymount University BA French and Art