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employment

2024

Distinguished Professor, Department of English
Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA

2019 - 2022

Chair, Department of English, UCLA

2015 - 2025

Marcia H. Howard Term Chair in Literary Studies, UCLA

2012 -

Professor, Department of English
Institute of the Environment & Sustainability, UCLA

2009 - 2012

Professor, Department of English, Stanford University

2004 - 2009

Associate Professor, Department of English, Stanford University

1999 - 2004

Associate Professor, English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University

1993 - 1999

Assistant Professor, English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University

education

1993

Ph.D., English, Stanford University

1987

M. A., Romance Philology, University of Cologne, Germany

1985

M. A., English, University of California, Santa Barbara

1982

Zwischenprüfung (B.A. Equivalent), English Philology, University of Cologne, Germany

1981

Zwischenprüfung (B.A. Equivalent), Romance Philology, University of Cologne, Germany