Year Inducted
1973
Career Field
English
Highlights
- One of the world’s foremost scholars on Herman Melville and his famous work Moby Dick
- Taught the very first Ecocriticism course ever offered at a Chinese university while in China as a Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer
- 1971: Named the KU Outstanding Woman Teacher of the Year
- 1971: received Standard Oil Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching and the HOPE Award
- 1984: Awarded the Mortar Board Outstanding Educator Award and a Chancellor’s Club Teaching Professorship
- One of eleven KU women scholars in the book Seeing Female: Social Roles and Personal Lives