Oral History Interview, Sue Lanser (1490)

Abstract

Sue Lanser was born in 1944 in Buffalo, New York and grew up in Chicago Illinois. She obtained her bachelor’s degree from Marquette University and then seven years later (in 1972) entered graduate school at UW-Madison, receiving her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 1979. During her time at the University of Wisconsin-Madison she was a teaching assistant and then a several-times lecturer for Women’s Studies 101. She helped to found the Women’s Studies Program at Georgetown University, where she taught from 1980 to 1989, and participated in the program at the University of Maryland from 1989 to 2001. She now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and teaches at Brandeis University, where she chaired and restructured the program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.