BETTY T. BENNETT

Distinguished Professor of Literature
American University

Contact Information

Department of Literature
Gray Hall 227
American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20016-8047
Phone: (202) 885-2971
Fax: (202) 885-2938
E-mail bbennet@american.edu


Education

Ph.D. New York University, 1970
Major: English and American Literature

M.A. New York University, 1963

Major: English and American Literature

B.A. Brooklyn College, 1962 (Magna Cum Laude)

Major: English Literature and Comparative Literature


Administrative and Faculty Positions

1985-1997 Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, American University.
Chief academic officer of College, which includes 15 departments, 3 programs, the Schools of Communication (until 1993) and Education.
1979-1985 Dean, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Pratt Institute.
            1982 ( 1/1 - 6/20) Acting Provost, Pratt Institute.

1970-1979 Asst. to Dean of Graduate School, State University of New York at Stony Brook.

1971-1972 Assistant Chair, Comparative Literature Program.

1985- Professor, Department of Literature, American University.

1981-1985 Professor, English and Humanities, Pratt Institute.

1979-1981 Associate Professor, English and Humanities, Pratt Institute.

1975-1979 Associate Professor (Adj.), State University of New York at Stony Brook.

1970-1975 Assistant Professor (Adj.), State University of New York at Stony Brook.

1964-1966 Teaching Assistant, English Department, New York University.

Areas of Scholarly Specialization: Romanticism, Mary Shelley and her circle, Nineteenth-Century women writers; Editing: letters and texts.

Courses Taught: English Romanticism; European Romanticism; The Shelley Circle; Gothic Literature; Symbolist Poetry, French and British; Sophomore Survey; Freshman Composition.

Fellowships, Scholarships, Honors

1994 Founding President, Phi Beta Kappa, Zeta Chapter, American University

1992 Keats-Shelley Association of America - Distinguished Scholar Award

1984-1987 National Endowment for the Humanities (Grant)

1982 The Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Grant-in-Aid

1980-1981 American Philosophical Society (Grant)

 1978-1979 SUNY - Stony Brook Grant-in-Aid

1977-1978 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (academic year)

 1976 The Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Grant-in-Aid

1974-1975 National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Humanist Fellowship

1964-1966 New York University Fellowship

1962-1963 New York University Scholarship

1962 Phi Beta Kappa


Grants and Foundation Related Activities

1991 Co-Director, National Endowment for the Humanities, "International Bicentennial Conference on Percy Bysshe Shelley."

 1990 Co-Director, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College Faculty in the Humanities, "From Romantics to Victorians: the Cultural Transition."

1988 Principal Investigator and Project Director, National Endowment for the Humanities Curricular Development Project.

1982-1984 Co-Author and Activity Director, Title III, Educational Technology/Faculty Development.

1982 Primary Author and Director, Mellon Foundation Grant for the Liberal Arts and Sciences.

1980-1982 Primary Author, HEW Title III Developing Institutions Program for Development of Study Skills Center, and Director, Study Skills Center.

1980-1982 Chief Academic Administrator at Pratt Institute for New York State Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP).

1979-1982 Director, Mellon Grant (I) for Enrichment of Humanities Courses.

 1977-1980 Danforth Foundation Liaison Officer for the State of New York.

 1975-1979 Danforth Foundation Representative, SUNY at Stony Brook.

 


Memberships and Professional Activity

American Association for Higher Education; Brooklyn College Alumni Association; Byron Association; Modern Language Association; New York University Alumni Association; Phi Beta Kappa; Society for Textual Scholarship, PEN American Center.

 Listed in: Who's Who in America; Who's Who in American Women; Dictionary of International Biography; The World Who's Who of Women; Who's Who in American Education; International Authors and Writers Who's Who, Who's Who in the East, Who's Who in the World.

 Keats-Shelley Association of America:

Book Review Editor, 1976-1994 (see above)
Board of Directors, 1986-
Editorial Board, 1988-
Co-Chair, Shelley Bicentenary Conference, 1992
Co-Chair, Mary Shelley Bicentenary Conference, 1997

 

Society for Textual Scholarship, Executive Committee, 1993-


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