Background
Diane Freedman was born on September 11, 1955, in New York City. She is the daughter of a physician Albert Leon and a registered nurse and homemaker Mary (Spock) Freedman.
Ithaca, NY 14850, United States
Diane P. Freedman studied at Cornell University, where she became a Bachelor of Arts in 1977, and a Master of Arts in Teaching in 1978.
Boston, MA 02215, United States
In 1982 Diane P. Freedman finished her studies at Boston University and became a Master of Arts.
Seattle, WA 98195, United States
Diane P. Freedman got a Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Washington. Seattle, in 1989.
Diane Freedman
Diane Freedman with friends
Diane Freedman was born on September 11, 1955, in New York City. She is the daughter of a physician Albert Leon and a registered nurse and homemaker Mary (Spock) Freedman.
Diane P. Freedman studied at Cornell University, where she became a Bachelor of Arts in 1977, and a Master of Arts in Teaching in 1978. In 1982 she finished her studies at Boston University and became a Master of Arts. She got a Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Washington. Seattle, in 1989.
Diane P. Freedman started her career at State University of New York College at Cortland, as an instructor in English in 1979.
She worked at Walnut Hill School for the Performing Arts, Natick, as an English teacher and house parent, in 1979-1980. Later she was an executive staff assistant at Cornell University, Ithaca, in 1982-1984. She was a professor at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, (visiting assistant professor of English, 1989-1992), the University of New Hampshire, Durham, (assistant professor, 1992-1996, associate professor of English, 1996 ). She also was a speaker at colleges and universities, including the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, University of Scranton, University of Vermont, Iowa State University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Dickinson College. At Epoch she was an assistant managing editor and member of poetry staff, 1976.
Diane P. Freedman is also a contributor to books, including Teaching Prose, edited by Fredric V. Bogel, Katy K. Gottschalk, and Mark Hamblet, Norton (New York), 1988; Anxious Power: Reading, Writing, and Ambivalence in Narrative by Women, edited by S. J. Sweeney and Carol Singley, State University of New York Press (Albany), 1993; The Confessions of the Critics, edited by Harold Aram Veeser, Routledge (London, England), 1996; and Personal Effects: The Social Reference of Personal Writing, edited by David Bleich and Deborah Holdstein, Utah State University Press (Logan), 2001.
She is a contributor of articles, poems, and reviews to periodicals, including Women’s Review of Books, Bucknell Review, Interdisciplinary’ Studies in Literature and the Environment, College Literature, Women and Language, Grapevine, Sou'wester, and Ascent.
Quotations: “My own hybrid identity makes me study and practice mixed-genre or autobiographical-scholarly writing, the subject of many of my publications and courses and the mode in which I usually write. 1 do also write poems and personal essays, as well as more ‘traditional’ literary criticism.”
Diane Freedman is a member of the Modem Language Association of America, National Council of Teachers of English, Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, New Hampshire Commission on Community and National Service, member, (since 1998), member of park and recreation committee,Town of Durham, 1994, member of the bicycling advisory committee, (since 1994), member of Oyster River Watershed Association, (since 2000).
Modem Language Association of America , United States
National Council of Teachers of English , United States
Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States , United States
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment , United States
New Hampshire Commission on Community and National Service , United States
1998 - present
member of park and recreation committee,Town of Durham , United States
1994
member of the bicycling advisory committee , United States
1994 - present
Oyster River Watershed Association , United States
2000 - present
Diane Freedman married Brian S. McWilliams (a journalist) on July 9, 1988. They have one child, Abraham Brody.