Year Inducted
1977
Career Field
English
Highlights
- Internationally recognized expert on Chaucer
- 2005: received Department of English’s Mabel S. Fry Award for Teaching Excellence
- 2000: Millenium Medal of Honor from the American Biographical Institute
- 1969-1970: Guggenheim Fellowship to work on one of her four published books
- 1997: Worked to have Ipswich, England the tavern owned by Chaucer’s family in Ipswich, recognized as a historic landmark