Meryl Altman is Professor of English and Women's Studies at DePauw. She came to Greencastle in 1990, after teaching at William and Mary and studying at Swarthmore and Columbia, where she earned her Ph.D in English literature with a dissertation on modernist American poetry. She currently serves as Faculty Development Coordinator. Meryl has published articles about Djuna Barnes, H.D., Faulkner, William Carlos Williams, metaphor, and , and she writes periodically for the Women's Review of Books. Her most recent publications focus on Simone de Beauvoir.