Dr. Rosenfelt is currently Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park where she also serves as Director of the Curriculum Transformation Project. CTP is charged with making the campus-wide curriculum inclusive of gender as well as ethnic, racial, cultural, and other aspects of human diversity. She is an affiliate faculty member in the Departments of Communication and American Studies.

From 1980 to 1989, she served as Professor and Director of Women's Studies at San Francisco State University. Her publications include Encompassing Gender: Integrating International Studies and Women's Studies (2002), so-edited with janice Monk and Mary M. Lay; Tillie Olsen's Tell Me A Riddle (1995); Feminist Criticism and Social Change: Sex, Class, and Race in Literature and Culture, co-edited with Judith Newton (1986); "Women's Studies and Curriculum Transformation," with Schmitz, Butler, and Sheftall, in Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education, ed. Banks and Banks (1995); "'Doing' Multiculturalism: Conceptualizing Curricular Change," in Multicultural Course Transformation in Higher Education, ed. Morey and Kitano (1997), and other essays on curricular change and articles on twentieth century American women's literary and cultural history, including most recently "Rereading 'Tell Me A Riddle' in the Age of Deconstruction," in Listening to 'Silences': New Essays in Feminist Criticism, ed. Fishkin and Hedges.

She currently serves as the director of the International Consortium for Graduate Studies in Women and Gender and has recently served as Project Director for a series of Ford Foundation grants on internationalizing and "engendering" the curriculum. Dr. Rosenfelt’s major areas of research include: women's studies and curriculum change in higher education, gender, globalization, and culture and contemporary North American women writers. She earned her Ph.D. in English literature from UCLA in 1972.