August, 1979 Ph.D., Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Indiana Major Field: American/African-American Literature Dissertation: "Women on Women: The Black Woman Writer of the Harlem Renaissance--Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston"
1972-1974 M.A., Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Indiana
Major: American Literature
1968-1972 B.A., Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama
Major: English; Minor: Spanish