Joanne V. Creighton

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Joanne V. Creighton, Ph.D. is currently serving as president of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, USA.

Creighton graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Wisconsin (Madison). She has an M.A.T. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor).

Creighton taught at Wayne State University from 1968-1985 and became dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1985. She then served as the vice president for academic affairs and provost and professor of English from 1990-1994 at Wesleyan University and was Wesleyan's interim president from 1994 to 1995. She joined Mount Holyoke as President in 1996.

[edit] Select scholarship

• Joyce Carol Oates: Novels of the Middle Years (1992)
• Margaret Drabble (1985)
• Joyce Carol Oates (1979)
• William Faulkner's Craft of Revision: The Snopes Trilogy, the Unvanquished and Go Down Moses (1977)

[edit] Select book reviews

• Digging Deep into Familiar Ground: Joyce Carol Oates And Margaret Drabble Examine The Complex Dynamics Of Female Identity (Chicago Tribune Review, 2002)
• Postmodern Portrait: Joyce Carol Oates' Respectful Fictionalized Life of Marilyn Monroe (Chicago Tribune Review, 2000)

[edit] External links

• Biography
• Address delivered at Women's Education Worldwide conference, 2004
• Mount Holyoke Inaugural Address, 1996