Assistant Professor. BYU year: 2006. MA, Spanish Literature, U. of California, Irvine, 2001 ;
PhD, Comparative Literature, U. of Calfornia, Irvine, 2007.
Associate Professor. Ph. D. University of Utah--American Studies (Dissertation examined folk religious practices and how they influenced writers like Hawthorne, Irving, Lydia Child, and others. ;
B. A. UCLA--English (Wrote an Honors Thesis on Nathaniel Hawthorne).
BYU year: 2003. PhD, Pennsylvania State University (Art History),2003;
MA, University of Connecticut (Medieval Studies),1997 ;
BA, Brigham Young University (Latin and Humanities with Honors),1993.
Professor. BYU year: 1974. BA, high honors, English & German, BYU 1969; MA comparative literature, BYU 1970; PhD medieval studies, Cornell University 1974.