Background
Darby Lewes was born on October 6, 1946 in New York, United States.
Darby Lewes was born on October 6, 1946 in New York, United States.
In 1984 Darby received B.A. (with honors) at Saint Xavier University. Then she got M.A. at Northwestern University in 1985 and Ph.D. at University of Chicago in 1991.
In 1986-1990 Darby worked as lecturer in English at Saint Xavier University, and then as an instructor in literature at University of Chicago. Since 1993 she is an assistant professor of English at Lycoming College in Williamsport. She has published five books and many journal articles, as well as book chapters and encyclopedia entries. She has been a featured and/or plenary presenter at several professional conferences in the United States and Europe.
Darby's A Portrait of the Student as a Young Wolf: Motivating Undergraduates was nominated for a Frederick W. Ness Book Award, and Dream Revisionaries: Genre and Gender in Women's Utopian Fiction 1870-1920 was a finalist for the Woodrow Wilson Foundation's Rosenhaupt Book Award and earned her a Litt.D. from Wilson College in Pennsylvania.
Darby married Bobby Stiklus, and they gave birth to two daughters: Jennifer Stiklus Gray and Kimberley.