Rose, Phyllis

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ROSE, Phyllis

ROSE, Phyllis. American, b. 1942. Genres: Literary criticism and history, Women's studies and issues, Autobiography/Memoirs, Biography, Essays. Career: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, teaching fellow, 1966-67; Yale University, New Haven, CT, acting instructor, 1969; Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, assistant professor, 1969-76, associate professor, 1976-81, professor of English, 1981-. National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Humanist Fellow, 1973-74; University of California, Berkeley, visiting professor, 1981-82; Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, 1984-85; Guggenheim Fellow, 1985. Publications: Woman of Letters: A Life of Virginia Woolf, 1978; Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages, 1983; Writing of Women (literary criticism), 1985; Jazz Cleopatra: Josephine Baker in Her Time, 1989; Never Say Goodbye: Essays, 1991; (ed.) The Norton Book of Women's Lives, 1993; Year of Reading Proust, 1997. Address: Dept of English, Wesleyan University, 285 Court St, Middletown, CT 06459, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]