EDUCATION:
BA: Queen's College CUNY, 1957; MA: UCal Berkeley, 1960; PhD: UMass Amherst, 1976.

COURSES TAUGHT:
Techniques of Reading, Expository Writing, Introduction to the Novel, Victorian Poets and Prophets, Nineteenth-Century British Novel, The Nineteenth-Century Novel and the Woman Question, The Victorian Canon and Feminist Fiction, Femme Fatales and the New Woman, Dickens Then and Now, The Restoration throught the Romantics, The Bronte's World of Childhood, The Brontes: The Making of Myths, Victorian Poets and Prophets.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
" 'Incarnate History': The Feminisms of Middlemarch," "Writing in a "Womanly' Way and the Double Vision of Bleak House," George Eliot and Community: A Study in Social Theory and Fictional Form.

PROGRAM CONNECTIONS:
Women's Studies, Leadership Studies

PRIMARY FIELDS OF INTEREST:
Victorian Literature and Culture, and Gender Studies; Women's Studies; Theory of Fiction.

OTHER INTERESTS:
Modern Literature, History of Ideas.

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