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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, 1990-1994
The Vice Chancellor and Provost, 1994-1998
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, 1998-2000
President of Smith College and Professor of English,
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
Douglas Society, 2000
Bellagio Residency, 2000
Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni, 2003
The Berkeley Fellows, 2003
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.
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.
"Introduction: Victorian Poetics," A
Companion to Victorian Poetry, ed. Richard Cronin, Alison Chapman, and Antony
H. Harrison, Blackwell Publishing, 2002, pp. 1-21.
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.
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, San Francisco Bar Association, Berkeley League of Women
Voters, various rotary clubs, UC Regents, and numerous campus and alumni groups |
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