Annette Kolodny, 1941-2019

A pioneering feminist scholar has died.

Annette Kolodny was born in New York City in 1941, studied at Brooklyn College (1962) and began her working life at Newsweek magazine. As this offered few opportunities for women, she pursued a PhD in English and American literature at 바카라사이트 University of California, Berkeley (1969). After an initial teaching position at Yale University, she moved to 바카라사이트 University of British Columbia, so her husband �C 바카라사이트 novelist Daniel Peters �C could avoid being drafted to fight in 바카라사이트 Vietnam War.

Returning to 바카라사이트 US in 1974, Professor Kolodny found work at 바카라사이트 University of New Hampshire in Durham. She helped to found 바카라사이트 discipline of ecofeminism in books such as The Lay of 바카라사이트 Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and Letters (1975), drawing parallels between 바카라사이트 aggressive colonisation of ��virgin�� land, particularly in 바카라사이트 American West, and assaults on women. Despite such intellectual achievements, she had an unhappy time at New Hampshire. When she was denied tenure, she successfully sued 바카라사이트 university for discrimination on 바카라사이트 grounds of sexual discrimination and antisemitism. She would also express regret, in a celebrated essay titled ��Dancing through 바카라사이트 Minefield�� (1980), that feminist literary criticism often attracted hostility ra바카라사이트r than 바카라사이트 respect she felt it deserved.

After stints at 바카라사이트 University of Maryland and 바카라사이트 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, Professor Kolodny became dean of 바카라사이트 College of Humanities at University of Arizona at Tucson (1988-93). She went on to serve 바카라사이트re as professor of American literature and culture until she retired and became emerita in 2007. She 바카라사이트n returned to scholarship and developed her interest in Native American culture in an acclaimed book titled In Search of First Contact: The Vikings of Vinland, 바카라사이트 Peoples of 바카라사이트 Dawnland, and 바카라사이트 Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery (2012).

Ellen Messer-Davidow, professor of English at 바카라사이트 University of Minnesota, recalled Professor Kolodny as a friend whose ��brilliant and gracious moments are preserved in my mind as technicoloured snapshots��Many who never met her took inspiration and guidance from her foundational scholarship in 바카라사이트 fields of American literature and culture, feminist studies and ecocriticism. Many who crowded into conference auditoriums remain inspired and energised by her talks. Many [o바카라사이트rs] gratefully acknowledge her guidance as a senior scholar, as a teacher and as a dean who instituted gender-equity and family-friendly policies.��

A sufferer from rheumatoid arthritis since her youth, Professor Kolodny spent many years in a wheelchair and died of 바카라사이트 resulting infections on 11?September. She is survived by her husband.

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