EDUCATION:
1992 Ph.D., Comparative Literature; University of Toronto, Centre for Comparative Literature; Dissertation: “High Nights. Aspects of Post-Tridentine Mystical Literature”; Supervisor: Wlad Godzich
1989 M.A., Comparative Literature; U. of Toronto, Centre for Comparative Literature
1981 Honours B.A., Romanian and Spanish Languages and Literatures, Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest; B.A. Thesis: “The Rhetoric of Metaphor”; Supervisor: Ion Coteanu

AREAS OF INTEREST:
• Comparative Literature;
• History of Romance, English, German, Central-East European and Classical literatures (Renaissance, Baroque, 20th Century, Mystical Literature);
• Critical Theory;
• Philosophy;
• Film Theory;
• History of religions;
• Semiotics and philosophy of language;
• Creative Writing