Background
Jaanus was born on January 22, 1940 in Tartu, Estonia; the daughter of Richard Jaanus and Hedda Podrang. She came to the United States in 1950.
Poughkeepsie, New York, United States
Vassar College, Bachelor of Arts
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Harvard University
New York City, New York, United States
Julliard School of Music
Urbana and Champaign, Illinois, United States
University of Illinois
New York City, New York, United States
Barnard College
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1984
Jaanus was born on January 22, 1940 in Tartu, Estonia; the daughter of Richard Jaanus and Hedda Podrang. She came to the United States in 1950.
Jaanus received a Bachelor of Arts from Vassar College in 1961. Seven years later she earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Comparative Literature from Harvard University.
Jaanus began her career as a teacher at Harvard University in 1963 and held it for a year. In 1965, she took a position of a professor at Julliard School of Music, where she served until 1966. Then in 1968, Maire was appointed a professor at the University of Illinois. The same year she became an instructor in English at Barnard College.
In 1969, Jaanus held the position of an assistant professor at Barnard College. Also she served as an associate professor at the same college from 1976 to 1981. Since 1981 she has been a professor of English and comparative literature at the same college. Also Maire taught a course on Reading Lacan and Literature at Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She taught the upper level 19th and 20th century Humanities courses at Columbia College for several decades.
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1984Jaanus is a member of American Association of University Professors, American Association of University Women, Modern Language Association, PEN International, The Author's Guild, Inc., Estonian Learned Society and Phi Beta Kappa.
In June 1962 Maire Jaanus married Edward W. Said, with whom she divorced in 1970. Then in 1970, she married Juhan Kurrik, with whom she divorced in 1984. They have a child. On September 3, 1988 Maire married Michael E. Brown and their marriage lasted twelve years.