Judith Fetterley

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Judith Fetterley was born in New York City, New York, although she was raised in Toronto, Canada before moving to Franklin, Indiana with her family at the age of ten. Fetterley received her Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1969. From 1967 to 1973, she taught at the University of Pennsylvania. She then moved to the State University of New York at Albany, New York, where she is currently a professor of English and women's studies. Fetterley is known for her work in feminism and women's studies, and helped formulate the concept of resistant reading in her 1978 book, The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction.