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

 

Grants
Special Lecture
Intricacy, Design, & Cunning in the Book of Judges
Preface to Book
Recent Publications
Authors Photographed and Interviewed
Special Projects
Workshops Given in 1985 and 1986
Papers given at conferences (1981-2008
)
Talks given (1981-2004)
Institutes, conferences, workshops attended (1981-1993)
Courses taught

   

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.

  Education

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

Special Lecture

“Provide, Provide,” a talk at the Convocation for New Students and Faculty, SUNY/Oneonta, August 1992.

Back to Top

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

Back to Top