Diane Freedman

Diane P. Freedman is author of Midlife with Thoreau: Poems, Essays, Journals and An Alchemy of Genres: Cross-Genre Writing by American Feminist Poet Critics, editor of Millay at 100: A Critical Reappraisal, and co-editor of The Intimate Critique: Autobiographical Literary Criticism, Autobiographical Writing across the Disciplines: A Reader, and The Teacher's Body: Embodiment, Authority, and Identity in the Academy. She has contributed  to the volumes Teaching Prose; Constructing and Reconstructing Gender; Confessions of the Critics; Anxious Power: Reading, Writing, and Ambivalence in Narrative by Women; The Intimate Critique; and Personal Effects: The Social Character of Scholarly Writing, and to many journals, among them ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, The Bucknell Review, College Literature, the EDIS Journal, Women and Language, Fourth River, Permafrost, Cornell News, Crazyquilt and Foreign Literary Studies. She has also published poems and personal essays in Sou'wester, Sunrust, Roberson Poetry Annual, Wind, Ascent, and the volume Shorewards: A Collection of American Women’s Coastal Writings. She earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington, an M.A. in creative writing from Boston University, and M.A.T. and A.B. degrees in English from Cornell University. Her fields and courses span American literature, nature writing, contemporary memoir, poetry, autobiographical criticism, women's studies, and Jewish studies.