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• BA, 1954, Boston University
• MDiv., 1957, Yale University
• PhD, 1982 Syracuse University

• 1977–present, �󷢲�Ʊ, Hamilton, New York
  • 2003–present, Professor of Philosophy and Religion, emerita
  • 2003–2004, Director of Women’s Studies
  • 1996–2003, Professor of Philosophy and Religion [part-time]
  • 1995–1997, Director of Affirmative Action
  • 1988, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion [part-time]
  • 1982, Assistant Director of Great Britain Study Group
  • 1982–1988, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion [part-time]
  • 1982–1985, Director of Affirmative Action
  • 1977–1982, Instructor in Philosophy and Religion [part-time]
• 1976–1977 State University of New York College at Cortland, Lecturer in Philosophy
• 1967–1971 �󷢲�Ʊ, Hamilton, New York, Instructor in Philosophy and Religion [part-time]
• 1966-1967 Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, New York, Lecturer in Philosophy
• 1962-1966, �󷢲�Ʊ, Hamilton, New York, Special Instructor in Philosophy and Religion

• Phi Beta Kappa - Boston University, 1954
• Danforth Graduate Fellowship for Women, 1972 (-1982)
• Theta Chi Beta - Syracuse University [Religion Honorary], 1978
• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, 1985: "Kierkegaard on Sexuality, Love, and Personal Identity," Atlanta, GA
• Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation's 1986 summer institute on "Interpreting the Humanities," Geneva, NY
• 1993 Vice-President/President-elect, Søren Kierkegaard Society
• 1994 President, Søren Kierkegaard Society
• Steering Committee, "Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Group" of the American Academy of Religion, 1993-1999, Co-chair, 1997-1999
• Sidney J. and Florence Felton French Teaching Award, 2003, �󷢲�Ʊ
• �󷢲�Ʊ AAUP Professor of the Year, 2018

"The Binocular Vision: The Philosophical and Religious Imagination in W. H. Auden's Critical Essays," Soundings, Summer 1976 (Vol. LIX, No. 2, 164-185).

"Eternal Feminine or New Woman?" (A Critical Review of Rosemary Radford Ruether's New Woman/New Earth and Sheila Collins' A Different Heaven and Earth), Cross Currents, Fall 1975 (Vol. XXV, No. 3, 309-313).

"Images of Sin and Salvation in Feminist Theology," Anglican Theological Review, January 1978 (Vol. LX, No. 1, 25-54).

"Kierkegaard's Existential Dialectic: The Temporal Becoming of the Self", The Journal of Religious Thought, Vol. 38 (Spring-Summer 1981), No. 1, 20-41.

"Nietzsche's Dialectical Aesthetic in The Birth of Tragedy", Studies in the Humanities, Vol. 9, No. 2 (September 1982), 40-46.

"Judaism Without Covenant: Breslauer on Buber," Jewish Social Studies, Winter 1983, (Vol. XLV, No. 1, 31-42).

"The Dialectics of Affirmative Action," The Christian Century, November 30, 1983 (Vol. 100, No. 36, 1106-1110). Reprinted in an abridged version as "Affirmative Action Is Just" in Social Justice: Opposing Viewpoints (St. Paul, MN: Greenhaven Press, 1984).

"Feminist Theology: The `Verbing' of Ultimate/Intimate Reality in Mary Daly," Ultimate Reality and Meaning: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Philosophy of Understanding, September 1988 (Vol. 11, No. 3, 212-232).

• Reprinted in Feminist Interpretations of Mary Daly, eds. Sarah Lucia Hoagland and Marilyn Frye (University Park, PAS: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000), 27-54.

"The Alchemy of Forgiveness", Plumbline: A Journal of Ministry in Higher Education, March 1991, (Vol. 19, Issue 1, 20-22).

"Finally Forgiveness: Kierkegaard as a `Springboard' for a Feminist Theology of Reform" in Foundations of Kierkegaard's Vision of Community: Religion, Ethics, and Politics in Kierkegaard, edited by George B. Connell and C. Stephen Evans (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1992), 196-217.

"Kierkegaard and Feminism: Apologetic, Repetition, and Dialogue" Kierkegaard in Dialogue, eds. Merold Westphal and Martin Matustik (Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana U. Press, 1995), 110-124.

"The Heterosexual Imagination and Aesthetic Existence in Kierkegaard's Either/Or, Part One", International Kierkegaard Commentary, vol. 3 (Macon, GA: Mercer U. Press, 1995), 201-228.

• Re-printed in Feminist Interpretations of Kierkegaard, eds. Sylvia Walsh and Céline Léon, (University Park PA: Pennsylvania University Press, 1997) 25-49.

"Judge William Judging Woman: Essentialism and Existentialism in Kierkegaard's Either/Or, Part Two", International Kierkegaard Commentary, vol. 4 (Macon, GA: Mercer U. Press, 1995), 33-57.

"The Silent Woman in Kierkegaard's Later Religious Writings," in Feminist Interpretations of Kierkegaard, eds. Sylvia Walsh and Céline Léon (University Park PA: Pennsylvania University Press, 1997) 287-306.

Review of The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard, eds. Alastair Hannay and Gordon Marino (Cambridge University Press, 1998) in The Archiv Fur Geschichte Der Philosophie, 81. Bd., S. 349-351 Walter de Gruster 1999.

“The Wreath of Eternity: Marriage as Paradigm of Covenant Love in Kierkegaard and Buber,” International Kierkegaard Commentary, volume 10 on Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions, ed. Robert L Perkins (Macon, GA: Mercer U. Press, 2006) 289-320.

“Practicing Liberation: Feminist and Womanist Dialogues with Kierkegaard’s Practice in Christianity,” International Kierkegaard Commentary, volume 20, ed. Robert L Perkins (Macon, GA: Mercer U. Press, 2004) 303-341.

“To Be the Truth Is the Only True Explanation of What Truth Is: Gilleleie and the Twenty-First Century,” Why Kierkegaard Matters: A Festschrift in Honor of Robert L. Perkins, eds. Marc A Jolley & Edmon L. Rowell, Jr, (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2010) 17-37.

Two items in Women and Religion, Philosophy and Feminism: the �󷢲�Ʊ Heritage in Honor of Professors Marilyn Thie and Wanda Warren Berry, edited by Christopher Vecsey (Hamilton NY: �󷢲�Ʊ Press, 2019). Chapter 7: ”Reflections on Women and Religion”, pp. 79-94 and “Hoping With Our Feet: Forty Years of Women at �󷢲�Ʊ and Beyond”, pp. 103-117.

• General Education:
  • Philosophy and Religion; Philosophy, Religion, and Literature; Philosophy, Religion, and Drama
  • Roots of Western Civilization
  • Western Traditions: Continuity and Change
• Introduction to Philosophy (Cazenovia College and SUNY Cortland)
• Introduction to Religion
• Introduction to Women's Studies
• Contemporary Issues and Values
• First-Year Seminars: 
  • Contemporary Issues and Values
  • Meaning in Drama: Images of Human Existence in Classical and Contemporary Theater
• Commitment vs. Cynicism: Modern Experiences of Faith and Despair
• January Projects:
  • Philosophical and Religious Issues in Tolstoy's War and Peace
  • Hedonism and Its Critics
• Religion and Literature: Drama and Human Existence
• Religion and Psychology
• Women and Religion
• Women's Lives and the Religious Traditions
• Feminist and Womanist Religious Thought 
• Women's Studies Seminar:  Feminism and Authorship:  Mary Daly and Rosemary  Radford Ruether
• Major Religious Authors Seminar: Rosemary Radford Ruether
• Major Religious Authors Seminar: Søren Kierkegaard
• Major Religious Authors Seminar: Religious Existentialists: Kierkegaard and Buber
• Love/Power/Justice: Social Ethics and Religious Faith
• (Spring 2002)  Philosophy and Faith (seminar)
• Many Independent Studies and Honors Projects on a variety of topics.

in latter part of time at �󷢲�Ʊ

• Department of Philosophy and Religion
  • Recording Secretary (several years)
  • Honors and Awards Committee (several times)
  • Chair, Search Committee (Jewish Studies) 1992-93
  • Search Committee (Early Christian Literature), 1993-1994
  • Chair, Search Committee (Philosophy of Religion- one year) 2001
• Faculty Nominating Committee
• Bolton House (Women's Studies House) Advisor/Faculty Fellow
• Special Committee to Draft Sexual Harassment Policy
• Residential Life Committee
• Women's Studies Advisory Committee
• Faculty Affairs Committee, 1991–1994
• Academic Affairs Board, 1994–97, Secretary, 1995–97
• Committee on Academic Advising 1996–97
• Committee Service as Director of Affirmative Action, 1995–1997
  • Faculty Committee on Affirmative Action Oversight
  • Staff Committee on Affirmative Action Oversight
  • ALANA (Minority) Affairs Committee
  • Sexual Issues Group
• Sexual Harassment Panel 1997–1999
• Department of Philosophy and Religion Committee on Honors: Member and Chair numerous times
• Steering Committee, Center for Ethics and World Societies, 2000–
• Research Council, Spring 2002
• Promotion and Tenure Committee, one year in late 1990s or early 2000s

• Hospice Volunteer (approximately 2005–2011)
• Literacy Tutor, Madison County Reads Ahead (about five years?)
• Town of Hamilton Democratic Committee
  • Chair, (2006(?)–2011/12)
  • Secretary, 2012–?
• Member Madison County Democratic Committee, circa 2007–2018
  • Chair, Website and Publicity Committee 2016–2018
• New Yorkers for Verified Voting, 2005–2011?
  • Board of Directors: 2005–
  • Executive Director 2008–?