Background
Peirce, Carol Marshall was born on February 1, 1922 in Columbia, Missouri, United States. Daughter of Charles Hamilton and Helen Emily (Davault) Williams.
Peirce, Carol Marshall was born on February 1, 1922 in Columbia, Missouri, United States. Daughter of Charles Hamilton and Helen Emily (Davault) Williams.
AB, Florida State University, 1942; Master of Arts, University of Virginia, 1943; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1951.
Head English department, Fairfax Hall, Waynesboro, Virginia, 1943-1944;
instructor English, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, Pennsylvania, 1944-1946;
instructor, Harvard University, 1952-1953;
assistant dean, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, 1950-1953;
head English extension home study, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1953-1954;
assistant director admissions, Goucher College, Towson, Maryland., 1956-1962;
Professor of English and committee design, U. Baltimore, since 1968;
department chairman, U. Baltimore, 1968-1994;
general education core coordinator, U. Baltimore, 1985-1987;
Distinguished teaching professor College Liberal Arts, U. Baltimore, 1981-1982;
chairman humanities division, U. Baltimore, 1972-1979;
general education director, 1995-1997;
Chairman of the Board, New Poets Series, since 1975. Visiting scholar Lucy Cavendish College, U. Cambridge, England, 1977-1978. Co-coordinator On Miracle Ground: The International Lawrence Durrell Conference, 1980, 82, 90.
Co-coordinator conference Evermore] Celebrating the 150th Anniversary ofEdgar Allan Poe's "Raven, " 1995.
Member Modern Language Association, Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore (board directors 1973-1989, president since 1989), Lawrence Durrell Society (board directors 1983-1993, 99^, national president 1980-1982, international president 1994-1998), Maryland Association Departments English, Phi Beta Kappa, Chi Delta Phi, Phi Alpha theta, Phi Kappa Phi.
Married Brooke Peirce, July 12, 1952.