Biography:

Literary scholar; University professor and administrator. Born– October 28, 1938, New Orleans, La. Parents– French Hood, Jr. and Jane (Bland) Craddock. Education– Stephens College, A.A., 1957; Indiana University, B.A., 1959; Stanford University, M.A., 1960; Yale University, M.A., 1963; Yale University, Ph.D,, 1964. Taught at Alabama College, 1960-1961, Connecticut College, 1963-66,  and Goucher College, 1966-72; taught and served as Department Head, Boston University, 1972-1988; University of Florida, 1988-. Served on editorial boards of several journals and annuals. Member American Association of University Professors, American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, The College English Association, and the Modern Language Association. Awarded; Woodrow Wilson fellowship, 1959-1960; Guggenheim fellowship, 1971-1972. Awarded status of professor emerita on her retirement.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online.

Publication(s):

Edward Gibbon, a Reference Guide. Boston; G. K. Hall, 1987.

Edward Gibbon, Luminous Historian, 1772-1794. Baltimore; Johns Hopkins, 1989.

Young Edward Gibbon, Gentleman of Letters. Baltimore; Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.

Editor:

English Essays of Edward Gibbon. Oxford, Eng.; Clarendon Press, 1972.

Contributor;

The Familiar Letter in the Eighteenth Century.  University of Kansas Press, 1966.

Writers of the English Language.  St. Martin’s Press, 1979.