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Professor, Department of English, U.S. Naval Academy

• Previously Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, 1987-present
• Courses in European Novel, Modernism, Drama, Poetry, Film, Romanticism, Creative Writing, Western Civilization, Islamic Lit., Literary Theory, Western Views of Africa and India (and the reverse), and Eastern Classics (Hindu epics, Tale of Genji, Dream of the Red Chamber)

Fulbright Lecturer/Professor, National University of Rwanda

• 1985-1987
• Courses in American and British Novels, American Realism, Survey of American Literature, Modern Tragedy

Lecturer, University of Freiburg (West Germany)

• 1983-1985
• Seminars in Modernism and American Postmodernism
• Language courses in German-English Translation, Grammar/Composition, and Literary Interpretation

Teaching Fellow, Vanderbilt University

• 1980-1982
• Readings in French literature (in French) and German oral formulation (in German)
• Lecturer/section leader in a two-semester Western Humanities course