Lynne Hanley
Encyclopedia
Lynne Hanley is an American
feminist
author
and literary critic. She is currently Professor of Writing and Literature at Hampshire College
.
, an M.A. from Columbia University
, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley
. Before coming to Hampshire, she taught at Princeton University
, Douglass College and Mount Holyoke College
.
United States
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feminist
Feminism
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author
Author
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and literary critic. She is currently Professor of Writing and Literature at Hampshire College
Hampshire College
Hampshire College is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1965 as an experiment in alternative education, in association with four other colleges in the Pioneer Valley: Amherst College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and the University of Massachusetts...
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Background
Hanley received a B.A. in English from Cornell UniversityCornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
, an M.A. from Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
. Before coming to Hampshire, she taught at Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
, Douglass College and Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts college for women in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It was the first member of the Seven Sisters colleges, and served as a model for some of the others...
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Select articles
- "Sleeping with the Enemy: Doris Lessing in the Century of Destruction" in The Columbia History of the British Novel. Richetti, John (ed.); Bender, John (assoc. ed.); David, Deirdre (assoc. ed.); Seidel, Michael (assoc. ed.). New York: Columbia UP, 1994: 918-38
- "To El Salvador" in Critical Responses in Arts and Letters, #8: The Critical Response to Joan Didion. Sharon Felton (ed.) Westport: Greenwood Press, 1993.
- "Mean Streak." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 14, No. 1, 1993: 93 -101.
- "Writing Across the Color Bar: Apartheid and Desire." In Massachusetts Review: A Quarterly of Literature, the Arts and Public Affairs, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 495–506, Summer 1991
- "Alias Jane Somers." Doris Lessing Newsletter, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 5–6, 14, Spring 1988.
Books
- (with Paul JenkinsPaul Jenkins (poet)Paul Jenkins is an American academic. He is currently Professor of Poetry at Hampshire College.Jenkins received an M.A. and Ph.D. from The University of Washington, Seattle...
). Running Into War. (forthcoming) - Hanley, Lynne. Writing War: Fiction, Gender & MemoryWriting War: Fiction, Gender & MemoryWriting War: Fiction, Gender, & Memory is a 1991 text on women authors, war stories, and literary criticism by American professor Lynne Hanley.-Overview:...
. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1991.