CURRICULUM VITAE

Virginia Tiger
Department of English
Rutgers University
Newark, N.J. 07l02   

EDUCATION

Ph.D. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada  l97l
M.A.  University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada  l965
B.A.  Trinity College, University of Toronto, Canada     l963

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:

Professor of English, Rutgers University-Newark
Visiting Lecturer, Columbia University, New York
Lecturer, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:

Chair, English Department, Rutgers University-Newark, 2004-
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Faculty of Arts & Science, Rutgers University-Newark, 1991-1996
Dean of Instruction, Faculty of Arts & Science, Rutgers University-Newark, 1993-1996
Chair, Department of English, Rutgers University-Newark, 1990-91
Director, Graduate English, Rutgers University-Newark, 1985-90
Director, Women's Studies, Rutgers University-Newark, 1979-83

COURSES TAUGHT:    

Graduate - Jane Austen's Fictions of Culture; Narrative Parodies, Satires, and Intertextualities: Novels from the 50s through the 90s; Women's Fictions; Twentieth Century British Novel; Feminist Literary Legacies: Woolf, Lessing and Atwood;  British Drama and Poetry; The Political Novel; Critical Theories; Post-Colonial British Fiction.
Undergraduate - Literature and Law; Fiction into Film; The Modern and Contemporary English Novel; The Campus Novel; Modern British Fiction; Fabular Speculations:  William Golding and     Doris Lessing; Major Writers of the Twentieth Century;  Women in Literature; Introduction to Women's Studies;   Literary Masterpieces; Survey of English Literature. 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Reviewer, British Broadcasting Corporation (Radio, Bristol); Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Television/Radio, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver); CTV (Television, Toronto);New York Times Book Review; Soho Weekly News (New York); Toronto Daily Star; Washington Post.


PUBLICATIONS

Books:

The Unmoved Target: William Golding's Later Fiction. London:    Marion Boyars Inc., 2003   

Critical Essays on Doris Lessing, compiled and co-edited with Claire Sprague with a critical introduction, selected     bibliography and index. Boston: G.K. Hall, l986. ix+237 pages.

Everywoman, New York: Random House, 1976. xii+164 (outsize pages). Simultaneous paperback. Second printing, l976.
William Golding: The Dark Fields of Discovery. London: Calder and Boyars, l974. vii+244 pages. Paperback edition l975. Second (revised) edition and paperback published by Marion Boyars, Inc. (London and New York) l978.

Articles:

“‘Sleepers Wake;: The Surfacing of buried Grief in Doris Lessing’s Love Again, Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow and Margaret Drabble’s The Seven Sisters”, The Spiritual Journeys of Older Women. Ed. Phyllis Perrakis. Boston: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006, 6-27.        

“Ages of Anxiety: The Diaries of Jane Somers," Spiritual Explorations in Works of Doris Lessing. ed. Phyllis Perrakis. Boston: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000, 1-22.
""Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman:' Iconographies of Misogyny."  Selected Proceedings of the International Conference on Women in American and Israeli Literature and the Arts. Ed.      Karen Alkalay-Gut. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, forthcoming (typescript) 1-29.  
"Doris Lessing." Twentieth-Century Britain: An Encyclopedia. ed. Fred M. Leventhal. New York: Garland Press, 1995, 453-457.
"The I as Sight and Site: Memory and Space in Audrey Thomas's   Fiction." Canadian Women Writing Fiction. ed. Mickey  Pearlman. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993,       116-126.
"'The Words Had Been Right and Necessary:' Doris Lessing's The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five." Journal of Modern Literature, Style. Vol. 27, Spring 1993: 63-80.
"Lessing through New Lenses," Doris Lessing Newsletter 14, 2    1992): l;11-12.
"The Author of the Works in Question: Lessing Reads Lessing."   Doris Lessing Newsletter 13, 2 (1991): 4-5.
"'Lord of the Flies." Reference Guide to English Literature. Second (revised) edition. ed. Daniel Kirkpatrick. London:       St. James Press, 1991, 1681-1682.
"The Golden Notebook." Reference Guide to English Literature.
Second (revised) edition. ed. Daniel Kirkpatrick. London:  St. James Press, 1991, 1604-1605.
"The Empire Writes Back." The New Jersey Project: Integrating the Scholarship on Gender. Ed. Wendy Kolmar. New Jersey: The Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University Press, 1990 71-81.
"William Golding's Darkness Visible: Namings, Numberings, and   Narrative Strategies." Style. Vol 24, Summer 1990 284-301.
"'Taking Hands and Dancing in [Dis]Unity': From Story to Storied in Doris Lessing's Shorter Fiction," modern fiction studies. Vol 36 Autumn, 1990 421-433.
"Cultures of Occupation and the Canadian [con]Script[ion]." Nine Nations Reading: International Readings of DorisLessing.  Ed. Claire Sprague. London: Macmillan Press Ltd. & New York:    St. Martins Press, l990, 89-102.
"Illusions of Actuality: First-Person Pronoun in Lessing's Golden Notebook," Approaches to Teaching Lessing's The Golden  Notebook. Eds. Ellen Cronan Rose and Carey Kaplan. New York:    The Modern Language Association of America, l989, l01-l07.   "Wired!: Listening in on the Talk of the Town." co-author Steven     M.L. Aronson. New York Magazine. July 30, 1989, 26-35.
 "William Golding's Darkness Visible: One Mega[Myth] Lith of Modern Fiction." London and New Delhi: Arnold Publishers, l989, 66-79.
"Doris Lessing's Transformation of Utopian Discourse in The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five." Proceedings of the International Conference on the Politics and Poetics of Women's Writings. Eds. Ljiljana Ina Gjurgjan and Gabrijela Vidan. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, forthcoming, (typescript) 1-l4. Serbo-Croatian Trans. Miranda Blazevic. Belgrade: Republika, forthcoming. 
 "William Golding's Wooden World': Religious Rites in Rites of  Passage." reprint in Critical Essays on William Golding. Ed. James R. Baker. Boston: G.K. Hall, l988, 135-l49.
'Woman of Many Summers': The Summer Before the Dark." Critical  Essays on Doris Lessing. Boston: G.K. Hall, l986, 86-94.
"Candid Shot: Doris Lessing in New York." reprint in Critical Essays on Doris Lessing. Boston: G.K. Hall, l986, 221-223.
"Alice and Charlie and Vida and Sophy: A Terrorist's Work is Never Done." New York Times Book Review l0 Nov. l985:11.
"Candid Shot: Doris Lessing In New York." Doris Lessing Newsletter 8, 2 (l984): 10;11.
"Doris Lessing and Janet Fame: 'The Grammar of Journey.'"Doris Lessing Newsletter 7, l (l983): 11-12.
 William Golding's 'Wooden World': Religious Rites in Rites of Passage," Twentieth Century Literature 28, 2 (l982): 216-231.
"The Female Novel of Education and the Confessional Heroine" Dalhousie Review 60 (l980): 472-487.
"Inlaws/Outlaws The Language of Women." co-author, Gina Luria.  Women's Language and Style. Eds. Douglas Butturff and Edmund L. Epstein. Akron: University of Akron Press, l978, 1-11.
"An Othello." co-author Lionel Tiger. Plays for the Open Space. Ed. Charles Marowitz. London: Penguin, l974, 92-99.
"Advertisements for Herself." The Columbia Forum III, 2 new series (l974): l5-l9.

Book Reviews (selected):

“‘Our Chroniclers Tell Us’: Lessing’s Sequel to Mara and Dann” Review Essay of Doris Lessing’s The Story of General Dann, Mara’s Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog Doris Lessing Studies 25, 1 (2005): 1; 9-12; 26.

"Shipwrecked" Review of Louis Begley's Shipwreck The East Hampton  Star December 25, 2003, 17.     
"Made from Memories." Review Essay of Doris Lessing's The Sweetest Dream Doris Lessing Studies 22, 2 (2002): 1; 8-10:24.

"Mara and Dan: Incest as Apology." Review Essay of Doris Lessing's Mara and Dan Doris Lessing Newsletter 20, 2  (1999): 1; 15-16. 

"Memories are Made of This." Review Essay of Doris Lessing Walking in the Shade: 1949 to 1962 Doris Lessing Newsletter 19, 1 (1998):1;8-10.
"Walkers in the City." Review of Christine Sizemore The Female in the City. Doris Lessing Newsletter 14, 2 (1992): 11-12.
"Her Soul Would Not Be Still." Review of Rebecca Fraser, The Brontes: Charlotte Bronte and Her Family. New York Times Book Review 5 February l989: l6.

"Canonical Evasions: William Golding." Review Essay of William Golding: The Man and His Books, A Tribute on his 75th    Birthday. Ed. John Carey; Don Crompton, A View from the Spire: William Golding's Later Novels. Ed. and compiled by Julia Briggs. Contemporary Literature 29, 2 (l988): 300-304.

"She Rose to Conquer." Review of Flora Fraser, Emma, Lady Hamilton. New York Times Book Review l2 June l987: 9-10.
"Doris Lessing's 'Impertinent Daughters' and 'Mother's Life'." Review Essay of Doris Lessing "Autobiography Part One" and      "Autobiography Part Two". Doris Lessing Newsletter 10,2        (l986): 7;14. 
"Wuthering Heights Revisited." Review of John Wheatcroft, Catherine, Her Book; Stevie Davies, Emily Bronte: The Artist as a Free Woman. New York Times Book Review l9 Jan. l984:ll.

"Doris Lessing." Review Essay of Roberta Rubenstein, The Novelistic Vision of Doris Lessing.  Contemporary Literature    21, 4 (l980): 286-290.

"Inspissation and Obnubilation." Review Essay of William Golding Rites of Passage. Quarto Magazine 12 (l980): l5.

"Margaret Atwood: Life After Raves." Review Essay of Margaret Atwood Life Before Man. Soho News l3 Feb. l980: l4;26.  

"Doris Lessing's Stories, A Review."  Review Essay of Lessing Stories. Doris Lessing Newsletter 3, 2 (l979): l3-l4.
"A Reckoning." Review Essay of May Sarton A Reckoning. The American Book Review 1, 6 (l979): 2-3.
"Doris Lessing: Sex, Politics, Sufism." Review of Lessing Collected (Non African) Stories. Soho News 20 July l978: 42.
"The Romantic Novel in England." Review of Robert Kiely The Romantic Novel in England. Women in Literature 5, 2 (l977):59-67.
"Life and Death." Review Essay of Claire Tomalin The Life and Death of  Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary Wollstonecraft Journal 4      (l975):42-55.
"Good, Not Great Golding." Review of William Golding The Scorpion God. Washington Post 22 Nov. l97l: B6.

PAPERS DELIVERED AND PRESENTATIONS

2005:
“Teaching Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook and A.S. Byatt’s Babel Tower in a graduate seminar on the Condition of England Novel”. Modern Language Association Annual National meetings, Washington.
“Fiction into Film: Intertextual Adaptations”. Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii
"Textual Aeorbics in Doris Lessing's Fiction". The Politics of  Subversion and the Tyranny of the Body Annual 20th Century Literature Conference, Louisville    

2004:
Moderator and Organizer, "Law, Literature and Feminist Discourse" Law as Literature Discussion Group Modern Language    Association Annual National Meetings, Philadelphia
"Love Again: The Interleaved Fictions". First International Doris Lessing Conference, New Orleans
Moderator and Organizer, "Tropes of Place". First International Doris Lessing Conference, New Orleans

2003:
"Subversive Strategies: Lessing's Shorter Fiction". Modern Language Association Annual National Meetings, San Diego

2002:
"Teaching Literature and Law" Guilt, A Conference on Law and the Humanities" University of New England, Portland

2001:
"Theorizing the Cultural/Canonical Impact of Reviews: Doris     Lessing". Division on Twentieth Century English Literature. Modern Language Association Annual National Meetings, New Orleans.

2000:
"Literary Lions: Booker Prize Winners". Division on Twentieth- Century English Literature. Modern Language Association Annual National Meetings, Washington.

1999:
"The Case for the Canonical: Fictions by William Golding and  Doris Lessing". Guest Lecture. University of East Anglia, Norwich, England.

1998:
"Evasions and the Autobiographical Condundrum: Lessing's Work in Fact and Fiction". Modern Language Assocation Annual   National Meetings, San Francisco.

1997:
Respondent. "Doris Lessing and Cultural Studies". Modern Language Association Annual National Meetings, Toronto.
"Theorizing Contemporary Realism: Pat Barker's Novels in the Light of Bakhtin". International Conference on Contemporary     Theory, University of East Anglia, England.
"Solutions from Bakhtin's Poetics: 'Classic Realism'in Two Late Twentieth Century Texts". Guest Speaker. Department of English, Birkbeck College, University of London, England.
"The Minority Student Pipeline at Rutgers University". Co-Leader with Sunday DiPalma. 10th Annual National Conference on Race   & Ethnicity in American Higher Education, Orlando.

1996:
"Ages of Anxiety: Lessing's The Diaries of Jane Somers". Modern Language Association Annual National Meetings, Washington.

1995:
"That is Forever England:' Pat Barker's Great War Trilogy". North American Conference on British Studies, Washington.
"The Great War Revisited: Women's Works". Lecture. Combined Graduate English, Honors Women's Studies Colloquium.

1994:
Chair & Session Organizer. "Creating a Life: Doris Lessing and  Questions of Autobiography". Modern Language Association  Annual National Meetings, San Diego.
"Twentieth-Century Re[-]Visions of Nineteenth-Century   'Condition of England' Narratives". North American Conference on British Studies, Vancouver.

1993:
"Narrative Strategies in the Shorter Fiction: Doris Lessing's 'A Man and Two Women' and 'The Pit'. Modern Language Association Annual National Meetings, Toronto.

1992:
"[E]Merging Daughters: Female Affiliations in Woolf's To the Lighthouse and Lessing's The Diaries of Jane Somers". Modern Language Association Annual National Meetings, New York.  Chair/President de Seance, "Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance," Les Noirs Americains et L'Europe. W.E.B. DuBois Institute, Harvard and Centre d'Etudes Afro-Americaines, Sorbonne, Paris

1991:
"Empire Meets Umpire: Canadian Texts Confront American Contexts".
The New Jersey Project on Integration Annual Meetings, Brookdale College, New Jersey.
"Doris Lessing's The Four-Gated City as a Contemporary 'Condition of England Novel'". Modern Language Association Annual National Meetings, San Francisco.

1990:
"La Belle Province Lit la Belle Romanciere, Doris Lessing:Anglophone and Francophone Canadas Mangle Brit Lit".    Departement d'Etudes Anglaises, Universite de Montreal, Montreal.
Chair, Session Organizer, "Doris Lessing's Feminist Critical Contexts". Modern Language Association Annual National Meetings, Chicago.
"The Meanings of Miranda in the Aftermath of Empires".  LACE Lecturer and Guest Speaker for Gender Studies, Cornell  College, Iowa.
"Post-Colonial Literatures Written in English: English as a World Literature". Celebration of Our Work: Institute for Research  on Women's Eight Annual Research Conference on Women Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
Moderator, "Challenges for the Humanities in the 1990s". Modern Language Association Annual ADE Summer Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
"The Unspeakable Mother: Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child and The Good Terrorist". Literature and Psychology Colloquia, Smith    College, Northampton.
"Realism and Its Discontents: Doris Lessing's Shorter Fiction".  Eighteenth Annual Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Louisville.

1989:
"Illusions of Actuality: Lessing's The Golden Notebook in a Graduate Seminar on Autobiographical Fiction". Modern   Language Association Annual National Meetings, Washington.
Moderator, "Revising the Canon: Toward A More Inclusive Curriculum", National Conference: Opening the American Mind:    Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Higher Education, Rutgers University at Camden, Philadelphia.
"'Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman...:' Iconographies of Misogyny." Identity and Imagination. International Conference on Women in American and Israeli Literature and the Arts. Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Plenary Address, Project on the Integration of Gender, Race and Class and Gerda Lerner's "Theoretical Issues of 'Differences'in Conceptualizing the Curriculum". Rutgers University.

1988:
Moderator, "Doris Lessing and Post-Colonial Literature". Modern Language Association Annual National Meetings, New Orleans.
"Imagine Anne of Green Gables' Encounter with Concord's Jo March: Twenties Expatriates from Another Perspective". Keynote Address, Ontario Institute for Studies In Education.    Toronto. Canada.
"Ladies and their Literary Legacies: Burney, Wollstonecraft,    Austen". Guest Lecture for Eighteenth Century Seminar. Trinity College, University of Toronto, Canada.
"Feminism Then and Now: Cindarella's Slimming Sisters". Keynote Speaker, First Annual Women's Studies Conference. St. Peter's College, Jersey City.

1987:
"Doris Lessing's Revisions of Feminist Visions". Third  Interdisciplinary Congress on Women. Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland.
Chair, Session Organizer, "Doris Lessing's Autobiographical Encodings". Modern Language Association Annual National Meetings, New York.
"Bonds of Fortune: Alice Walker's The Color Purple". Lecture.   Combined Graduate English, Honors, Women's Studies Colloquium. Rutgers University, Newark.

1986:
"Narrative Strategies: Doris Lessing's Encodings of the Short  Story in the Longer Fiction". International Congress on Shorter Fiction. College of St. Mary & St. Paul at Cheltenham, England.
"Doris Lessing's Transformations of Utopian Discourse in the Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five". First International (Eastern European) Congress on the Poetics and    Politics of Women Writings, Inter University Centre of Post Graduate Studies, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia.
"The Neo-Conservative Attack on Doris Lessing". Lecture (with   Clare Sprague). English and Women's Studies Departments, University of Delaware, Delaware

1985:
"Feminist Literary Criticisms and Their Critiques: One View[ing] From that Room". Keynote Address. Departments of English, University of Toronto, Canada.
"Doris Lessing: The Map of One Mind". The Andiron Club, New York.

1984:
"Temperament and Talent: Eyre de Lanaux". National Women's Studies Association Annual Meeting. Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
"False Memories of Freedom: Lessing's Memoirs of a Survivor".   Conference on Freedom and Literature, Freedoms Foundation,Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.

1983:
Moderator and Respondent, "Doris Lessing and the Great  Tradition". Modern Language Association Annual National Meetings, New York.

1982:
The Recycling of l8th-Century Narrative Motifs in William Golding's Survival Fables". Sixth Annual Meeting, Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Rutgers University. New Brunswick.
"ConFiguR[uin]aTions of Ruinious Gender: Epiphonic Episodes in  Kate Chopin's The Awakening and James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". James Joyce and Modernism: The Joyce Centennial l882-l982, Rutgers University, Newark.   
"Community and Convention Addresses Tradition and Memory: Views from and Perspectives on Some Black Women Writers".   'Tradition and Memory,' Tenth Annual Twentieth Century Conference. University of Louisville. Kentucky.
"Doris Lessing and Janet Frame: 'The Grammar of Journey'". Modern Language Association Annual Meetings, Los Angeles.

1981:
"Doctors, Lawyers, Scientific Chiefs". Welcoming Address to Conference on Women in Sciences and Technology, Rutgers University, Newark. (The conference, whose Director, chief      Fund Raiser and Publicity Director was Tiger, had as its Keynote Speaker Ruth Hubbard of Harvard University and included the distinguished biologist, Jewell Plummer Cobb.) Welcoming Address. An Evening with Diana Trilling. In honor of the publication of Mrs. Harris. Women's Ink, New York. 
"Illness as Metaphor in the Literature and Lives of Nineteenth Century Women: More 'Madwomen in the Attic'". Guest Lecture. Douglass College Honors Colloquium Series, Rutgers University, New Brunswick.

1980:
Moderator and Co-Discussant (with Germaine Greer), George Eliot Panel. International Conference on Nineteenth Century Women Writers. Hofstra University, Hempstead.
"Lucille Clifton: African-American Women Writers and the Matrilineal Legacy". Conversations in the Disciplines:  National Conference on Twentieth-Century Women Writers. State University of New York, Brockport.
Welcoming Address. An Evening with Alberto Moravia. In honor of the American publication of Time of Desecration. Women's Ink, New York. 
Chair, Session Organizer and Discussant, "Doris Lessing and the Art of Science Fiction". Modern Language Association Annual National Meetings, Houston.

1979:
"Doris Lessing's Borrowings from Feminism; Feminist Borrowings of Doris Lessing". Lecture, Department of English, University of Cincinnati, Ohio.
"Reflections on Interdisciplinary Pedagogy in Teaching Literature by Women". Lecture, Women Studies Program, University of  Cincinnati, Ohio.   
"Doris Lessing and the Confessional Novel." An Interdisciplinary Approach to Feminism, Fifth Annual Colloquium on Contemporary Methods of Literary Analysis. Graduate Center, City University of New York.
"The Community of Women in the Novels of Toni Morrison". Modern Language Association Annual National Meetings, San Francisco.

1978:
"Womantalk and 'Languagescape': Contrasting Women Writers from  the Americas". Conference on Inter-American Women Writers, University of Ottawa, Canada.
"Theory and Practice: Women's Studies in the Classroom". Radio  Essay, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canada.
Chair, Session Organizer and Discussant, "'The Sense of an Ending:' Doris Lessing and Other Twentieth Century      Visionaries". Modern Language Association Annual National Meetings, New York.
1977:
"Women's Language". Conference on Language and Style (Keynote   Speaker, Robin Lakoff, and Annette Kolodny, Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar). Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Readings from Everywoman. "Women and the Arts", Third Annual Women's Conference, Northwestern University, Chicago.
Program Delegate. Inaugural Meeting, National Women's Studies Association. California State University, Fresno.
"Doris Lessing: Tradition and the Individual Talent". Modern Language Association Annual National Meetings, Chicago.

1976:
"The Community of Women: A New Paradigm for Household Management" Presentation. Childcare: Public and Private Support Systems, Hunter College, City University of New York.
"Network, Patchwork, Good Work". Talk to Zonta International, Organization of Executive Women in Business and the Professions, Chicago Headquarters, Illinois.
Panelist (with Mary Hartman) Women's Studies Symposium. Northeastern Women's Studies Association, Livingston College, Rutgers University.

1975:
"Just Catch Her in the Rye: Erica Jong's Fear of Flying and the Novel of Adolescence". Guest Lecture, York College, City University of New York.
"The Incredible Crone: Canada From Her Emigrant Daughters' Eyes".
Inaugural Conference on Canadian Studies in the United  States, Jersey City State College, New Jersey.

PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS

Co-Founder and Executive Officer of Law as Literature, Discussion Group, Modern Language Association, 1993-
President, Doris Lessing Society, Modern Language Association, Allied Organization, 1992-95.
Co-Founder and Officer: Doris Lessing Society, Modern Language Association Allied Organization, 1979-86.
Editorial Board, Doris Lessing Newsletter, 1980-present; American Book Review Special Feminist Issue.
Outside Referee: John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation;
National Endowment for the Humanities; Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship; American Council of   Learned Societies; The John D. Eaton Foundation; The Canada Council; The McDowell Foundation; Brooklyn College Research Council; Florida University Press; St. Martins Press.
Outside Reader: Mosaic; PMLA; Style; The Canadian Forum.
Susquehanna University Press.
Editorial Consultant: Style; Doris Lessing Newsletter, Rutgers Magazine.
Project Consultant: Literary Frontiers Series, University of    Missouri Press. 
Program Committee: Colloquium on Sexuality, Gender & Consumer
Culture, New York University Institute for the Humanities; Women's Ink, New York.


PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Executive Committee of Law as Literature, a Discussion Group of the Modern Language Association; CCAS; Modern Language Association; PEN, New York Chapter; National Women's Studies Association; New Jersey College and University Coalition on Women's Education; American Committee for Canadian Studies; Doris Lessing Society; Margaret Atwood Society; Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University; Institute for the Humanities, New York University; Colloquium on the Theory and Practice of the Avant Garde; Humanities Council, New York University; Faculty Seminar, Columbia University.