PhD in English, May 2002, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.
Dissertation, Imagining Auschwitz: Postmodern Representations of the Holocaust.
(Geoffrey Harpham, Chair; Molly Rothenberg; Joe Valente)

M.A. in English, December 1993, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.

Zwischenprüfung in English, February 1991, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany.

Vordiplom in mathematics, October 1990, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany.

Abitur, May 1986, Frauenlobgymnasium Mainz, Germany.