Education: Philadelphia High School for Girls, 1958. B.A., English literature, Wellesley College,1962. Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Harvard University,1971.
Academic Honors: Wellesley College Durant Scholar; Phi Beta Kappa. Woodrow Wilson Fellowships, Harvard University, 1962-1964.
Academic Experience: Taught Women’s Studies and American Studies, State University of New York/Old Westbury.
Journalism: Book: Moving the Mountain: Women Working for Social change, 1981, 1993, The Feminist Press/McGraw Hill. Articles 1977 to present: feminism, Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian Territories, fracking.
Anthologized articles: “Why Teach Literature” in The Politics of Literature, ed. Louis Kampf and Paul Lauter, 1970, 1972, Random House; “Beita,” reprinted by Grand Street; anthologized in Intifada, ed. Joel Beinin, Middle East Reports and Information Project, 1999. “Life on a Leash: Encounters With the Palestinian Press,” anthologized by The Columbia Journalism Review, 2021.
Honorable Commendation: The Columbia Journalism Review praised “The War for the West Bank” as the only report in the press to consider the West Bank’s reactions to Israel’s 1982 war against Lebanon
Hobbies: playing piano, singing, listening to jazz, reading novels and mysteries, writing poetry, swimming, weight-lifting.
Life Partner, Life Partner, Louis Kampf, 1963 to 1990. Life Partner Jack Cole, 1990 through present.