• Ph.D. Washington State University, Pullman, WA (May, 2004)

English (Rhetoric and Composition),

Completed PhD Qualifying Examinations with Distinction (March 2002)

Areas: History and Theory of Composition, Genre Theory, Twentieth Century U.S. Literatures

Dissertation: Critical Pedagogy and Genre Theory: Interrogating the Politics of Respect in Writing Across the Curriculum (directed by Victor Villanueva).

• M.A. Washington State University, Pullman, WA (1999)

English (Rhetoric and Composition), with Distinction

• B.A. University of California at Santa Barbara, CA (1997)

English, Summa Cum Laude

• A.A. Antelope Valley College, Lancaster, WA (May 1995)

English, Magna Cum Laude