1938
Born in Athens, Greece on November 29.
1960
Earns a bachelor’s degree in French from Wellesley College.
1962
Achieves a Master of Arts from Columbia University.
1969
Obtains a Doctor of Philosophy in French literature from Columbia University.
1969
Is a faculty member at Barnard College until 1976.
1980
Publishes “The Aristocrat as Art: A Study of the Honnête Homme and the Dandy in 17th-and 19th-Century French Literature.”
1982
Is a professor of romance languages and women’s studies at the University of Michigan until 2001.
1992
Publishes “Discourses of Sexuality from Aristotle to AIDS.”
1995
Publishes “Feminisms in the Academy.”
1999
Is an Elizabeth M. Douvan Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan until granted emerita status in 2001.
2001
Is a distinguished prof. of early modern French lit. & culture, critical theory and human rights & refugee studies at the CUNY Graduate Center through today.
2005
Serves as president of the Modern Language Association until 2006.
2010
Publishes “Enchanted Eloquence: Fairy Tales by Seventeenth-Century Women Writers.”
2010
Publishes “Gabrielle Suchon, A Woman Who Defends All the Persons of Her Sex: Selected Philosophical and Moral Writings.”
2014
Publishes “Dynamics of Genders in Early Modern France: Women Writ, Women Writing.”
2015
Is appointed as commissioner of New York City’s Human Rights Commission.