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Joanne Feit Diehl Professor of English

Ph.D., Yale University, 1974
Graduate Study Balliol College, Oxford, Summer 1968
B.A., Mount Holyoke College, 1968

Professor Diehl is the author of two recently published books, Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore: The Psychodynamics of Creativity and Women Poets and the American Sublime. She has worked as Visiting Instructor at the State University of New York, Visiting Assistant Professor at Yale University, Kenyon College, and Trinity College, and Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Professor Diehl joined the UC Davis faculty as Assistant Professor in 1979 and advanced to Associate Professor in 1981. She left UC Davis in 1988 to work at Bowdoin College as Associate Professor soon to become Henry Hill Pierce Professor. In 1994, Professor Diehl returned to UC Davis as Professor of English. Her fields of study include Feminist Literary Theory, Contemporary Theory, Ninteenth and Twentieth-Century American Literature, Contemporary American Poetry, and Literature and Medicine.

• Koeiln Research Fund Grant, Bowdoin College, 1993
• Junior Faculty Fellowship, UC Davis, Summer 1980
• The University of Texas Research Institute Grant, Summer 1979
• N.D.E.A. Doctoral Fellowship, 1970-72
• Coe Fellowship, 1969-70
• Yale University Fellowship, 1968-69

Email: jfdiehl@ucdavis.edu