About The Author
E.T.A. Davidson served in the Women’s Army Corps from 1944-1946 during World War II, after which she received her Ph.D. in English at the University of Pennsylvania with a dissertation concerning the Marxist ideology of the British poets of the 1930s. She subsequently taught at Ohio University and the American College for Girls in Istanbul, Turkey, before coming to teach at the State University of New York at Oneonta. While there, she was Director of SUNY programs in Germany (1969-1970) and Israel (1971-1972) and the winter term in Ireland (1991). She also taught on the graduate level at Nankai University in Tianjin, P.R. China (1993-1994). Her many courses included introductory and upper-level courses in English and American Literature, World Literature (ancient and modern), the Bible as Literature, Literary Theory, and Women’s Studies. Now retired, she continues to give scholarly papers at regional and national conferences. She and her husband, a retired professor at Duquesne University, have five children. Explore her website at http://employees.oneonta.edu/davidset.