Martha Rainbolt

Martha Rainbolt, Professor of English, and Faculty Development Coordinator, has taught Early Women Writers, and a senior seminar called “Toward a Women’s Literary History: Studies in Finch, Austen, and Woolf,” as well as Shakespeare, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature, and a special course on the British Baroque.  Her many professional activities have included such topics as Sappho’s influence on 17th and 18th century British women poets; women’s friendship in contemporary fiction; humor in the 18th century; and Aphra Behn. She is coeditor of On the Contrary: Essays by Men on Women, and she reads manuscripts for Eighteenth Century Studies. She has also served as Chair of the English department, and served on every major committee known to person. She is a founding member of Women’s Studies at DePauw.