She graduated from
Bryn Mawr College with a B.A. in 1981,[3] and from
Princeton University with a Ph.D. in 1988. Her doctoral thesis was Pindar's Oikonomia: The House as Organizing Metaphor in the Odes of Pindar.[4]
The traffic in praise: Pindar and the poetics of social economy, Cornell University Press, 1991,
ISBN978-0-8014-2350-5
Cultural poetics in archaic Greece: cult, performance, politics, Editors Carol Dougherty, Leslie Kurke, Oxford University Press, 1998,
ISBN978-0-19-512415-6