M.A. New York University, 1963
B.A. Brooklyn College, 1962 (Magna Cum Laude)
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.
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.
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
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.
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:
Society for Textual Scholarship, Executive Committee, 1993-