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Academic Profile

Academic Background: Ph.D., English, Harvard University, 1963; M.A., English, Harvard University, 1959; B.A., English, Radcliffe College, 1957.

Research Interests: American literature, women’s writing, and literary history.

Appointments: Emeritus Professor, Department of English, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2004–present; Professor, 1963–2004.

Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship, 1975; National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1982.

Publications: Author of Women Writers of the American West, 1833–1927 (University of Illinois Press, 2011).