EDUCATION
University
of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Communications, Ph.D. 1989.
Doctoral Thesis: "What Made Pistachio Nuts?: Anarchistic Comedy and
the Vaudeville Aesthetic."
Advisors: David Bordwell and John Fiske
University
of Iowa, Communication Studies, M.A. 1985.
Georgia State University, Political Science/Journalism, B.A., 1980.
Thesis: "Mirror of Shattered Dreams: American Political Thought and
the Hollywood Film, 1927-1941."
Advisor: William R. Thomas
