Year Inducted
1985
Career Field
English
Highlights
- Coordinator of the Women’s Studies Program from its creation until 1976 and co-taught first introductory course
- Director of KU’s Research Institute on Women
- Instrumental in securing a $100,000 grant to support the 1980 Summer Research Institute on Women’s Public Lives
- Acclaimed for her rigorous and innovative feminist literary criticism
- Named Outstanding Teacher of the Year by the Commission on the Status of Women