She has also taught at the University of Alberta, and the University of Lethbridge, also Canada, and at Pacific Union College and in the University System of Georgia, in the USA. She holds master's degrees in German and French literature from the University of California (Riverside) and the University of Alberta, respectively. Her doctoral thesis, defended at the University of Alberta in 1998, dealt with the representation of Jeanne d'Arc in France at the turn of the twentieth century.