Patricia Smith Yaeger
Patricia Smith Yaeger was an American academic and literary critic.
Biography
[edit]Yaeger studied at Bryn Mawr College, receiving her BA in 1972. She took a Ph. D. at Yale University in 1980. She began her teaching career with posts at Williams College, the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University before becoming an associate professor at the University of Michigan in 1990. She was promoted to professor in 1999 and named the Henry Simmons Frieze Collegiate Professor of English and Women's Studies in 2005. At the time of her death from ovarian cancer, she was researching the concept of the "female sublime".[1] Yaeger died at her home.[2] She was survived by her husband and two children.[3] Yaeger received the Faculty Recognition Award from the University of Michigan in 2001.[4]
Publications
[edit]From 2006 until 2011, she edited the journal Publications of the Modern Language Association.[3] She is the author of Honey-Mad Women: Emancipatory Strategies in Women's Writing (1988), The Geography of Identity (1996) and Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women's Writing 1930-1990 (2000).
References
[edit]- ^ "Guide to the Patricia Yaeger papers, 1970-2014". Rhode Island Archival and Manuscript Collections Online. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
- ^ Whitt, Margaret Earley (1 January 2015). "A Tribute to Patricia Smith Yaeger". Flannery O'Connor Review. 13. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
- ^ a b "Obituary: Patricia Smith Yaeger". The University Record. University of Michigan. 29 August 2014. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
- ^ "Patricia Yaeger — Faculty Recognition Award". The University Record. University of Michigan. 1 October 2001. Archived from the original on 10 June 2011. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
External links
[edit]- Patricia Smith Yaeger Papers, Pembroke Center Archives, Brown University
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- 1949 births
- 2014 deaths
- Deaths from ovarian cancer
- American academics of English literature
- American women academics
- Bryn Mawr College alumni
- Yale University alumni
- Williams College faculty
- University of Pennsylvania faculty
- Harvard University faculty
- University of Michigan faculty
- American literary critics
- American women literary critics
- 20th-century American non-fiction writers
- 20th-century American women writers
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- 21st-century American women writers
- American women non-fiction writers