Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 2001, Comparative Literature with a Designated Emphasis in Performance Studies
Dissertation: Female Acts of Violence: French Revolutionary Theater in British and German Romantic Drama, winner of the Women in German Dissertation Prize
Intermediate Certificate in Latin [das Latinum], 1995, Georg August Universität, Göttingen, Germany
B.A., University of California, San Diego, 1994, German Literature (magna cum laude)