1998 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas
PhD in English. Dissertation: Dos Passos and the Discourse of Community: Revolution and the American Family, 1900-1929. Director: Charles H. Adams. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1999. 9920313. Comprehensive exams completed in American Literature 1865-1990, the novel, and Henry James.
I was 48 when I received this degree, holding a number of part-time teaching positions at several universities while writing my dissertation.
1989 Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
MA in English.
I was 38 when I received this degree.
1987 Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Clarion, Pennsylvania
BA in English, summa cum laude.
I was 36 when I received this degree.
1985 Penn State University, Shenango Campus, Sharon, Pennsylvania
AA in Letters, Arts, and Sciences, with distinction.
I was 34 when I received this degree.
Contrary to what most people think, I never made more than $57,000 a year, and that was in my final year of employment. Most of my positions paid in the $30s. I paid off all my debt at my last position, except for my student loans, which I have been repaying at $498 a month for twenty years, with ten more to go. I will be 82 then.
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