Margaret Randolph Higonnet (born Margaret Randolph Cardwell) is an American author, teacher and historian who currently serves as a Professor Emerita at
University of Connecticut
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Saint Louis, Missouri
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Mexico City
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, Mexico. Margaret was the second of four girls and attended schools for girls and women. The family lived one year in Vienna, an occupied city where the impact of World War II was very visible. Higonnet attended
Bryn Mawr College
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University College London
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, type = Public research university
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between 1963 and 1967. She obtained her PhD in Comparative Literature from
Yale University
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with distinction in 1970. Higonnet began her teaching career as in Instructor at the department of English at
George Washington University
, mottoeng = "God is Our Trust"
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, type = Private federally chartered research university
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, endowment = $2.8 billion (2022)
, presi ...
in 1967.
Career
Higonnet started teaching English and comparative literature at the
University of Connecticut
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in 1970.
Higonnet has been President of the American Conference on Romanticism, the American Comparative Literature Association, an FILLM (Fédération internationale de langues et littératures modernes). She created the Gender Studies Committee of the ICLA, and was President of the ICLA committee on comparative literary history CHLEL. Higonnet has held fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute, the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, the Rockefeller Foundation, Instituto Juan March, the Fulbright Scholar Program and th DAAD
She has worked on a range of topics including comparative literature, the literature of World War I, feminist theory, suicide, and children's literature. Her recent edited volume, "Nurses at the Front and Letters and Photographs from the Battle Country: The World War I Memoir of Margaret Hall" recover women's writings about World War I, as did her anthology, "Lines of Fire: Women Writers of World War I." She edited two collections of papers in comparative journals drawn from meetings of CHLEL: “New Europe, New Literary Histories,” (YCGL) and “Gender in Literary History” (CCS).
Awards and honors
* Best critical article of 1987 ("Narrative Fractures and Fragments"). Children's Literature Association, Literary Criticism Award
* Best critical article of 1992 ("Civility Books"). Children's Literature Association, Literary Criticism Award.
* "Behind the Lines, Across Boundaries: A Conference in Honor of Margaret R. Higonnet,” University of Connecticut, September 22–23, 2016
Personal life
Higonnet married
Harvard University
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professor
Patrice Higonnet
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in 1976; they have one daughter Ethel, born in 1979.
Bibliography
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Carolyn Heilbrun
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, ''The Representation of Women in Fiction.'' , location=Baltimore
, publisher=Johns Hopkins U. P , year=1981
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Barbara Rosen
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, ''Children's Literature.''. , location=New Haven , publisher=Yale U. P., year=1985
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Sonia Michel
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, ''Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars..'' , location=New Haven, publisher=Yale U. P. , year=1987
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* with Maria de Valdes, ''New Visions of Creation'' , location= Tokyo , publisher= U. Tokyo P. , year=1993
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Joan Templeton Joan may refer to:
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, ''Reconfigured Spheres: Literary Representations of Feminine Space'' , location=Amherst, Massachusetts , publisher= U. Massachusetts P. , year=1994
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* with Beverly Clark, ''Girls, Boys, Books, Toys.'' , location=Washington, DC, publisher=Johns Hopkins U.P. , year=1999
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Guy Adams Cardwell
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, ''Stories and Poetry''. New Britain: Hitchcock, 2005.
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Jarrod Hayes Jarrod is a variant of the name Jared.
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and
William Spurlin
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, ''Comparatively Queer: Interrogating Identity across Time and Cultures'' , location=New York, publisher=Palgrave. , year=2010
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Susan Solomon
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, ''Margaret Hall's Letters and Photographs from the Battle Country.'' , location=Boston, publisher=Massachusetts Historical Society , year=2014