Biography

Professor Stein publishes on contemporary North American women writers, especially Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison. She is especially interested in the ways that contemporary women writers inflect Gothic themes and motifs. On two occasions, Professor Stein was honored with the Woman of the Year award from two organizations: the URI Association of Professional and Academic Women in 1993, and the Rhode Island Commission on Women in 2007. She has served as Chair of the English Department and Director of the Women’s Studies Program at URI. She received a sabbatical and a Humanities Faculty Fellowship from URI in 2008-2009.

Recent publications include: Reading, Learning, Teaching Toni Morrison in 2009; Rachel Carson in 2012. Professor Stein is currently writing a critical study of the life and works of feminist poet and theorist Adrienne Rich.

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