Bachelor Degree Portland State University, USA English Language and Literature (completed 2002)
Master Degree Portland State University, USA English Language and Literature (completed 2005)
Doctoral Degree University of Oregon, USA English Language and Literature (not complete yet)
His doctoral thesis attempted to undo the structural work that the novel form imposes on post-modern narrative imaginations, or in other words to find points of leverage for opening imaginative spaces where new forms of literature could be developed, forms that might lead to and express new ways of understanding the self, social relations, and relations between humans and nature. This thesis was based on the proposition that the novel, as begun in early modern Europe and continuing today, is no longer adequate to historical circumstances of post-modernity, especially inasmuch as it is no longer able to critically question or to create new possibilities for personal identity, social relations, or human-nature relations, and is only able to confirm or reaffirm the modern self and its relations as already established. Since a new period of history calls for new forms of literature, after completing the doctoral thesis I have continued working in this direction through a number of creative and critical writing projects exploring the reality-creation functions of forms of writing such as the novel, the resume and CV, the bill (statement of account and request for payment for goods or services), the autobiography, Mesopotamian wisdom literature, and the screenplay. My general areas of research interest are the production of personal identity, post-modern forms of literature, and existentialism.
