1993

M.A. in German literature (University of Manitoba).
Thesis:
Grove's, Greve's & 'Fanny Essler's, Poems/Gedichte (350 leaves)
[publ. rev. & enl. in Dec. 1993; COVER]
e-Edition, UM Archives Website, 2007/8

Independent Studies:
  - two on FPG & FrL
  - one on (Language-) Skepticism (due to its impact around 1900)
Papers on:
Brecht, Goethe [+Natur, GSA 1987], Hofmannsthal, Musil [2x], Rilke

1984

Ph.D. in French literature & linguistics (Université Laval, Québec).
Thesis: Nature, Fortune et Dieu dans Les Essais de Montaigne (610 leaves)

1975

M.L.S. (McGill University, Montreal)
Independent Studies:
  - Lexical Semantics (an annotated bibliography)
  - The first century of printing in France & Germany, 1450-1550
Elected Courses:
  - Children's Literature (3 credits; Paper on Erich Kästner & Astrid Lindgren)
  - Intensive Italian (12 credits)
  - North American Literature (6 credits):
Papers on John Barth; Narrative view-point in Faulkner, M. Lawrence, & Vonnegut; Existentialism in Sartre, Pynchon & Vonnegut

1972

M.A. in French literature and linguistics (Université Laval)
Papers on La Chanson de Roland, Villon, Montaigne, Marivaux, Diderot, Voltaire, Maupassant, Proust, Gide, Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Ionesco, Butor, Robbe-Grillet, H. Aquin, J. Godbout, Anne Hébert, etc.

1970

Honours' B.A. in French literature (Université Laval)

1967/8

Diplôme & Certificat de langue et civilisation françaises (Sorbonne, Paris)

1967

Abitur (High School Diploma), Neusprachlich-naturwissenschaftliches Gymnasium für Mädchen an der Curschmannstrasse, Hamburg
English (9 yrs) ; Latin (7 yrs) ; French (3 yrs)