Professor, Women's Studies Department, University of Maryland

Director, Curriculum Transformation Project

Previous Academic Experience

1980-1989       Full Professor and Director, Women's Studies Program, San Francisco State University

1969-1980       English Department (Promoted to Full Professor, 1979); Director, Women’s Studies, California State University, Long Beach 

Professional Education

Ph.D. in English Literature, UCLA (1972)

M.A. in English, Columbia University (1965)

Publications: Books and Monographs

Encompassing Gender: Integrating International Studies and Women’s Studies. With Mary M. Lay and Janice Monk, eds. New York: The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2002. First author, "Introduction." Pp. 1-18.

Internationalizing Women’s Studies. With Janice Monk. Towson, MD: National Center for Curriculum Transformation Resources on Women, 2000.

Tell Me a Riddle (Tillie Olsen). New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995. Critical edition and anthology.

Feminist Criticism and Social Change: Sex, Class and Race in Literature and Culture. Co-edited with Judith Lowder Newton. London: Methuen, 1986.

Teaching Women's Literature From a Regional Perspective. Co-edited with Lenore Hoffman. New York: Modern Language Association, 1982.

Salt of the Earth. Monograph and critical edition of Michael Wilson’s screenplay. Old Westbury, N.Y.: The Feminist Press, 1978.

Strong Women: An Annotated Bibliography of Literature for the High School Classroom. Old Westbury, N.Y.: The Feminist Press, 1976.

Female Studies X: Learning to Speak/Student Work. Old Westbury, N.Y.: The Feminist Press, 1975.

Publications: Essays, Chapters, and Related Scholarship (Selected) 

"Women’s Studies and Curriculum Transformation in the United States." With Betty Schmitz, Johnella E. Butler, and Beverly Guy-Sheftall. In James A. Banks and Cherry A. McGee Banks, eds. Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education. 2^nd edition, revised. San Francisco: John Wiley, 2004. Pp. 882-904.

"Teaching `Globalization, Gender, and Culture.'" In Encompassing Gender (cited above). Pp. 168-179.

"Culturally Challenging Practices and Feminist Pedagogies." In Encompassing Gender. Pp. 456-458.

"Internationalizing and `Engendering* the Curriculum at the University of Maryland." With A. Lynn Bolles. In Encompassing Gender. Pp. 424-429.

"Women around the World: A Videography." Compiled with Jacquelyn E. Davoli, et al. In Encompassing Gender. Pp. 500-538.

"Suggestions for Teachers Undertaking Curriculum Transformation." In Encompassing Gender. Pp. 452-454.

"The Feminist Press." Entry for Encyclopedia of American Studies. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.

"Tillie Olsen." The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth Century American Short Story. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. Pp. 423-430.

"Intersections: Global Feminisms, American Studies." With Jean Pfaelzer and Doris Friedensohn. Introductory essay for special issue of American Studies International. October 2001.

"Thinking across Borders: Internationalizing Women’s and Gender Studies in the Curriculum and Classroom." In Eva Lundgren, ed. Undervisning i kvinno-och konsforskning i Norden. Stockholm: Centrum for kvinnoforskning och forfattarna, 1999.

"Crossing Boundaries: Thinking Globally and Teaching Locally about Women’s Lives." Editorial essay, Women’s Studies Quarterly 26, 3&4 (1998):4-24.

"`Doing' Multiculturalism: Conceptualizing Curricular Change." In Margie Kitano and Dean I. Morey, eds. Handbook for Multicultural Infusion in Higher Education. New York: Allyn & Bacon, 1996. Pp. 35-55.

"Women's Studies and the Transformation of the Curriculum." Co-authored with Betty Schmitz, Johnella Butler, and Beverly Guy Sheftall. In James A. Banks and Cherry A. McGee Banks, eds. Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education. New York: Simon & Schuster MacMillan, 1995. Pp. 708-728.

"Rereading Tell Me a Riddle in the Age of Deconstruction." Listening to `Silences': New Essays in Feminist Criticism." Eds. Shelley Fisher Fishkin and Elaine Hedges. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. 49-70.

"’Definitive’ Issues: Women's Studies, Multicultural Education, and Curriculum Transformation in Policy and Practice in the United States." Women's Studies Quarterly 22 (3 and 4) (Fall/Winter 1994): 26-41.

"Feminism, `Post-Feminism,' and Contemporary Women's Fictions." In Tradition and the Talents of Women. Ed. Florence Howe. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991. Pp. 268-291.

"Tillie Lerner Olsen." Entry for the Heath Anthology of American Literature, II (Lexington, Mass: D.C. Heath, 1990; revised for second edition, 1993). Pp. 1812-1844. Also corresponding entry for Instructor's Guide. Pp. 548-551.

"Second Thoughts on the Second Wave." With Judith Stacey. Feminist Studies 13 (Summer 1987): 341-361. Reprinted in Feminist Review, No. 27 (Autumn 1987): 77-95.

"Afterword" to Daughter of the Hills, by Myra Page. New York: The Feminist Press, 1986. Pp. 247-268.

"Getting into the Game: American Women Writers and the Radical Tradition." Women's Studies International Forum, 9,4 (1986): 363-372.

"Mainstreaming: What It Can Do, and What It Can't." Women's Studies International Forum 7 (1984): 67-176.

"The Politics of Bibliography: Women's Studies and the Literary Canon." In Women in Print. Ed. Joan Hartman and Ellen Messer-Davidow. New York: Modern Language Association, 1982. Pp. 11-29.

"From the Thirties: Tillie Olsen and the Radical Tradition." Feminist Studies 7 (Fall 1981): 371-406. Reprinted in Newton and Rosenfelt, above. Reprinted in Kay Hoyle Nelson and Nancy Huse, eds. The Critical Response to Tillie Olsen. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.

"Divided Against Herself: The Life Lived and the Life Suppressed in Political Women's Literature." Moving On 4 (April-May 1980):15-20, 23.

"Ideology and Structure in Salt of the Earth." Jump-Cut: A Review of Contemporary Cinema, No. 12/13 (Fall 1976):19-21. 

Publications: Articles and Reviews (Selected) 

"Think Globally, Teach Locally." The Women's Review of Books 15, no. 5 (February 1998): 28-29.

"Perspective: The Women's Rights Movement--A Multicultural View." In Women's Journeys, Women's Stories: In Search of Our Multicultural Future. Edited by Linda Pollack Shevitz and Susan Morris Shaffer. Newton, MA: Women's Educational Equity Act Resource Center, 1997. Pp 3-6.

"Learning Experience." The Women's Review of Books. Vol. 9, No. 5 (February 1992). (On the Curriculum Transformation Project Summer Institute)

"Integrating Cross-Cultural Perspectives in the Curriculum: Working for Change in the California State Universities." Radical Teacher 37 (Fall 1989):10-13.

Review. "Women's Studies Journals: A Decade of Feminist Thought." Thought and Action 1 (Fall 1984):180-183.

Review. Gloria Bowles and Renate Duelli-Klein, eds. Theories of Women's Studies. Connections (UC Berkeley Center for the Study, Education, and Advancement of Women), 5 (Winter 1981):3-4. Reprinted Women's Studies Quarterly 9 (Summer 1981).

"A Time for Confrontation." (Analysis of the Third Annual National Women's Studies Association Convention.) Women's Studies Quarterly, 9 (Summer 1981).

"Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies at UC Berkeley: A Collective Interview." Radical Teacher 14 (December 1979): 12-18.

"Affirmative Action: The Verdict Is Still Out." Radical Teacher 11 (March 1979): 3-5.

"Sexism in the Profession: One More Time." With Kittye Delle Robbins. Modern Language Association Newsletter (May 1977): 4-5.

"Of Oscars and Outrage," Los Angeles Times (April 1, 1977): Op ed page.

Review. Terry Eagleton, Myths of Power: A Marxist Study of the Brontës (1975). Minnesota Review, n.s. 7 (Fall 1976):114-117.

"Language and Sexism: A Note." With Florence Howe. Modern Language Association Newsletter 5 (December 1973):4-5.

"What Happened at Sacramento?" Women's Studies Newsletter 5 (Fall 1973):1, 6-7.

"Women's Studies Comes to Long Beach . . . Or Does it?" University Review (August 1973):6-7.

"Close-Up: The Women's Studies Program at CSULB," Women's Studies Newsletter (Spring 1973):2,11.

Review. Elvin Abeles, The Student and the University: A Background Book on the Campus Revolt. Childhood Education 47 (May 1971):442-444. 

Selected Papers, Presentations and related Scholarly work (Since 1995) 

"Salt of the Earth Revisited: A Model for Women’s Studies and Cultural Activism." Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration Conference, Silver City, New Mexico, April 2004.

Conference Director; opening address. "Educating for the Future: Crossing Borders/Building Coalitions in Graduate Women*s Studies around the World." International conference for founders of a graduate consortium in Women’s Studies. Towson, Maryland, Summer 2003.

"Reconstructing the Curriculum." University of Maryland, Institute on Implementation and Institutionalization (I-3). Summer, 2003.

"(Re) constructing the Regional Imaginary in American Studies." Keynote address, Southeast American Studies Association Conference. Florida State University, Winter 2003.

Talks on the Women’s Studies Ph.D. and on projects to internationalize women’s studies

International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women. Kampala, Uganda. Summer 2002.

Plenary Panel on the Women’s Studies Ph.D. National Women’s Studies Association conference on graduate women’s studies. Emory University, Fall 2001.

Chair: Agency, Authority, and Change: Feminist Scholarship in the Public Sphere, American Studies Association Conference, Fall 2000.

"’To Live with Our History’: Class Matters in Contemporary Women’s Novels." American Studies Association Conference, Montreal, Canada. October 1999.

"Encompassing Gender: Teaching Locally, Thinking Globally." Keynote address for Scandinavian Conference on Women's Studies. Stockholm, Sweden. September, 1998.

"Culturally Challenging Practices and Feminist Pedagogies," "The Politics of Documentary Film," and "Internationalizing Women's Studies Syllabi," three papers with follow-up workshops for the Women's Studies/Area Studies/International Studies Project at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. February 1998.

"Internationalizing Paradigms for Curricular Change." National Council for Research on Women/Ford Foundation invitational conference on the Women's Studies/Area Studies/International Studies Projects. New York. November 1997.

Commentary. "American Feminisms, Transnational Constructions." American Studies Association Annual conference. November 1997.

Conference Director. "Transforming Knowledge for a Changing World: Internationalizing Gender/Engendering the International." National conference held at the University of Maryland. Opening and closing remarks; also co-led session on "Culturally Challenging Practices and Pedagogical Strategies." October 1997.

"Internationalizing Women's Studies: Progress and Problems." Inclusive and Interdisciplinary: Building the New Curriculum. National Science Foundation Conference. Portland, Maine. September 1997.

"Internationalizing Gender, `Engendering' the International: Assessing a Ford Foundation WSAIS Project." National Council for Research on Women Annual Conference. Washington, D.C. May 1997.

"American Women's Fictions and Global Gender Issues." USIA Seminar for Foreign Scholars in American Studies. University of Delaware, February 1997.

"Love among the Ruins: Dystopian Landscapes and Utopian Reclamations in Women's Fictions of the 1990s." American Studies Association annual convention. Kansas City. October 1996.

"Toward a Multicultural Feminist Curriculum." Invitational keynote address, American University Women's Studies Program Conference on Women and Change in Higher Education. Also participation in two other panels as presenter and respondent. American University, Washington, D.C. March 1996.

"In the Beginning: The Early Years of Women's Studies." UCLA Women's Studies Program. January 1996.

"Feminist Generations." Panelist, American Studies Association annual convention. Pittsburgh, PA. October 1995.

"Changing the Humanities." Keynote Speaker and Workshop Leader, American Association of Colleges and Universities, Conference on Gender and the Nexus of Difference. Washington, D.C. April 1995.

Editorial Activities

1999-2003       Editorial Board, Women’s Studies Quarterly

2000                Co-editor, special issue of American Studies International on international women*s issues

1998-2000       Editorial Board, American Quarterly

1998                Editor, Special issue on internationalizing women's studies, Women's Studies Quarterly. Fall, 1998.

1981-1992       Editor in American Literature and Culture, Feminist Studies 

Fellowships, grants and Honors

2004                $130,000. The Ford Foundation. "Teaching and Learning Transnationally."

2001                $135,000. The Ford Foundation. "Educating for the Future: Theorizing Differences/Building Commonalities."

1999                $5000. Citigroup Program Initiative Fund, J. William Fulbright International Center, University of Maryland. Women’s Human Rights: A Seminar.

1999                $166,000. The Ford Foundation. "Constructing Connections across Borders: Women’s Studies and Curricular Change."

1998                "United States Women's Fictions and Global Gender Issues." University of Maryland Graduate Research Board semester's research leave.

1998                $2000, The Ford Foundation. Taping the Conference, "Internationalizing Gender/Engendering the Curriculum."

1995-1998       $200,000. The Ford Foundation. "Women and Gender in an Era of Global Change: Internationalizing and ‘Engendering’ the Curriculum."

1998                Certificate of Recognition, Diversity Initiative, University of Maryland

1985                $2500 Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award, San Francisco State University

1981                Comision Feminil's Emma Tenayucca Award for Furthering Cross-Cultural Scholarship and Understanding, Loyola-Marymount

1980                Ms. Magazine, one of "80 Women to Watch in the 80's"

1964-65           Honorary Columbia University Fellowship

1964-65           Woodrow Wilson Fellowship

1964                Phi Beta Kappa 

Professional Service and Activities

Service in Professional Associations (Selected)

2003-2004       Selection Committee, Fulbright New Century Fellowship

1996-1999       American Studies Association's International Women's Task Force Advisory Board, National Center for Curriculum Transformation Resources for Women

1995                American Association of Colleges and Universities, Keynote speaker and workshop leader for national conference, Gender and the Nexus of Difference

1994-1996       American Studies Association Committee on Women's Affairs

1994                Summer Seminar Leader, Association of American Colleges and Universities institute, "Borderlands: Democracy and Diversity."

1991                NWSA Pergamon Scholarship Selection Committee

1979-1988       NWSA Program Administrators Caucus

1981-1982       Program Committee, National Women's Studies Association Fourth Annual Conference

1978-1979       Program Coordinator, National Women's Studies Association First Annual Conference, Lawrence, Kansas

1977-1980       Steering Committee, Pacific Southwest Women's Studies Association

1974-1977       Member, Modern Language Association's Commission on the Status of Women in the Profession. 1976-77: Co-Chair. 

Consultancies and Related Professional Activities

Consultancies and addresses at more than one hundred institutions in the United States and abroad, including colleges and universities, high schools, foundations, the state and federal government, national associations, and a range of non-governmental organizations.