Edith T. A. Davidson 37 Union St, Oneonta, NY 13820, (607) 432-5692 or Cell: (607) 435-1834 9701 Saltsburg Road, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15239 (412) 793-2834 Davidset@Oneonta.Edu |
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Edith T. A. Davidson, Retired Professor of English, SUNY/Oneonta Born in New York City, November 21, 1923 Married to Loren K. Davidson (Ph.D. Duke University 1959); Retired Professor of English, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pa. www.lorenkdavidson.com Five children: Tina, Eva, Scott, Lâle, and Loren, Jr. |
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B.A. 1944 State University of New York (formerly New York State College for Teachers), Albany, NY M.A. 1949 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. Ph.D. 1954 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. Dissertation topic: British Poetry of Social Protest in the 1930s: Auden, Spender, Day-Lewis, MacNeice, and others (1954). Chief focus: theory of how political belief affects the quality of the poetry Career 1944-1946 Women’s Army Corps, Military Intelligence (Pentagon) and Adjutant General’s Office, Washington, D. C. 1946-1954 Graduate School, U. of Pennsylvania in English and American literature 1947-1952, 1953-1954 Assistant Instructor, College for Women, U. of Pennsylvania 1952-1953, Study in Sweden, working on dissertation 1954-1955 Study in Sweden, Swedish language and literature 1954-1955 Instructor, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 1956-1959 Assistant Professor, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 1959-1962 Lecturer, American College for Girls (Robert College, now the University of the Bosporus), Istanbul, Turkey 1962-1993 Professor of English, State University of New York, College at Oneonta 1969-1970Director of the SUNY Program in Würzburg, Germany 1971-1972 Director of the SUNY Program in University of Tel Aviv and Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel 1975-1976 Sabbatical in Santiago, Chile (husband a Fulbright Professor there) January 1983 Conducting student trip to London and Trent College, Nottingham Sept. 1991 and Jan.1992 Director of the SUNY Winter Intersession in Ireland: Women’s Studies and Irish Literature 1993-1994 Foreign Expert at Nankai University, Tianjin, PR China, teaching graduate English courses 1994-2001 occasional Adjunct in English State University of New York, College at Oneonta 2002-2005Teaching 4 courses in the Center for Continual Adult Learning, Oneonta, NY 1994-present Fiction Editor of the SUNY Journal of Women’s Studies, Phoebe |
“Provide, Provide,” a talk at the Convocation for New Students and Faculty, SUNY/Oneonta, August 1992.
Workshops Given in 1985 and 1986
7/85 and 7/86 I gave two week-long workshops at Bethany College to the Ohio-Meadville Unitarian-Universalists on the Bible as Literature I and II