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Date and Place of Birth: May 21, 1944, New York,
New York
B.A. with high and general honors, Douglass College,
1966
M.Ph., Yale University, 1969
Ph.D., Yale University, 1970
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor,
University of California, Berkeley, 1970-2002
Director, NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers,
1980, 1982
Faculty, Bread Loaf School of English, 1983
Director,
NEH Summer Seminar for Secondary School Teachers, 1984
Vice-Chair in Charge of Courses, Department of English,
University of California, Berkeley, 1979-83
Faculty Assistant to the Chancellor for
the Status of Women and Title IX Compliance Coordinator, 1983-84
Chair, Department
of English, 1985-88
Dean of Humanities, 1988-89
Acting Provost and Dean, College
of Letter and Science, 1989-90
Provost and Dean, College of Letters and Science, 1990-94
The
Vice Chancellor and Provost, 1994-98
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, 1998-2000
President
of Smith College, 2002-
Phi Beta Kappa, 1964
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1966-67
Danforth Graduate Fellowship,
1966-70
Humanities Research Fellowship, 1974-75
National Endowment
for the Humanities Fellowship, 1978-79
Hooker Distinguished Professorship, McMaster
University, 1995
Gayley Lecturer, English Department, Berkeley, 1998
Douglass
Society, 2000
Bellagio Residency, 2000
Rutgers University Hall of Distinguished
Alumni, 2003
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2004
Wilbur
Cross Medal, Yale University, 2007
Books
The Finer Optic: The Aesthetic of Particularity in
Victorian Poetry, Yale University Press, 1975
Victorian and Modern Poetics, University
of Chicago Press, 1994
Edited Books
The Norton Anthology of English Literature (edited,
with others), Norton, 1986, 1993, 1999, 2005.
George Eliot's "The Mill on the Floss" (A
Norton Critical Edition), Norton, 1994.
Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual
Imagination, edited with John O. Jordan, University of California Press, 1995.
Scholarly Articles
"Aggression and Providential Death in George Eliot’s
Fiction," Novel, 1976, pp. 130-40.
"Victorian Masculinity and the Angel of the House," in A
Widening Sphere: Changing Roles of Victorian Women, ed. Martha Vicinus, Indiana
University Press, 1977, pp. 146-62.
"Imaginative Restraint, Feminine Duty, and the Form
of Charlotte Bronte’s Fiction," Women’s Studies, 1979,
pp. 287-96.
"T.S. Eliot and the Victorians," Modern
Philology, 1981, pp. 157-65
"Self-Concealment and Self-Expression in Eliot’s
and Pound’s Dramatic Monologues," Victorian Poetry, 1984, pp.
217-26.
"The Feminine Subject in Victorian Poetry," ELH, 1987,
pp. 358-401.
"Gender, Voice, and Figuration in Eliot’s
Early Poetry," in T.S. Eliot: The Modernist in History, ed. Ronald
Blush, Cambridge University Press, 1990, pp. 23-37.
" 'The Hero as Man of Letters': Masculinity and
Victorian Non-Fiction Prose," in Victorian Sages and the Feminine: Gender,
Discourse, and Power, ed., Thais Morgan, Rutgers University Press, 1990, pp.
19-31.
"Painting the Dead: Portraiture and Necrophilia
in Victorian Art and Poetry," in Death and Representation, ed. Sarah
Webster and Elizabeth Bronfen, Johns Hopkins, 1993, pp. 133-51.
"Browning’s Corpses," Victorian Poetry, 1995,
pp. 391-401.
"Woolf and Education," Woolf in the Real World: Selected Papers
from the Thirteenth International Conference on Virginia Woolf, ed. Karen V. Kukil,
Clemson University Digital Press, 2005, pp. 2-10.
"The Victorian University
and Our Own," Journal of Victorian Culture,
2009.
Articles on Higher Education
"From the Department’s Chair to the Dean’s
Desk: Perspectives on Recruitment," ADE Bulletin, Spring 1989, pp.
30-32.
"Retaining Faculty Lines," ADE Bulletin, Winter
1996, pp. 10-13; reprinted in Profession, 1997, pp. 54-60.
"The American University and Women’s Studies," Tulsa
Studies in Women’s Literature, 1997, pp. 13-52.
"Challenges of the Millennium," ADE
Bulletin, Winter 1998, pp. 16-18.
"The Excellent Student Scarcity Myth," Christian
Science Monitor,
October 11,
2002.
"What Private Colleges Can
Learn from Public Universities About Public Spaces," Chronicle
of Higher Education, March 26, 2004, p. B18; reprinted as "Speaking Of
Places: Living in Public," in Places, Vol. 17, No. 1 (2004), pp. 22-25.
Papers, Lectures, and Panel Presentations
(partial list):
Modern Language Association, English Institute,
Modernist Studies Association, CCNY Graduate Center, California Institute of Technology,
Harvard University, Huntington Library, Centre College, McMaster University, Dickens
Conference (UC Santa Cruz), University of Tulsa, American Council on Education, AAU
Chief Academic Officers’ Meeting, University of Kansas, Colorado State University,
Arizona State University, Union College, San Francisco Bar Association, Berkeley
League of Women Voters, UC Regents, Bank of New York Higher Education Finance and
Investment Officers’ Forum, Financial Executives International, American Chemical
Association, American Political Science Association, Greenfield Community College
Foundation, The Chatauqua Institution, the CASE Annual Assembly, National University
of Singapore, The Chilton Club, the Cosmopolitan Club, various civic groups, and
numerous campus and alumni groups.
Smith
College
Sarah Lawrence College
Five Colleges, Inc.
Clarke School for the Deaf
Academy of Music
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Science Education Advisory
Board
Council on Finance for Higher Education
Merrill Lynch, 2007-08
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