Background
Bazin, Nancy Topping was born on November 5, 1934 in Pittsburgh. Daughter of Frank Williamson Topping and Helen Luther Arnold Wilson.
Bazin, Nancy Topping was born on November 5, 1934 in Pittsburgh. Daughter of Frank Williamson Topping and Helen Luther Arnold Wilson.
Bachelor, Ohio Wesleyan University, 1956. Master of Arts, Middlebury Graduate School French, 1958. Doctor of Philosophy, Stanford University, 1969.
Postgraduate, Institute Higher Education Administration, 1977.
Assistant professor English Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1970—1977. Director women's studies University Pittsburgh, 1977—1978. Associate professor English and women's studies Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, 1978—1984, director women's studies program, 1978—1985, chair department English, 1985—1989, professor English and women's studies, 1984—2000, eminent scholar, since 1996, professor emeritus, since 2000.
Manuscript reader for various publications. Exchange faculty lecturer University Rabat, Morocco, 1988. Visiting scholar Institute for Advanced Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1994.
Council on International Educational Exchange faculty development seminar in South Africa, 1998, Turkey, 2000. Founder Rutgers College Women's Studies Program Rutgers University. National leader for course and curriculum transformation, 1971-2000, president, emeritus faculty, 2000-2002.
Presenter in field.
(Book by Bazin, Nancy Topping)
Member Modern Language Association (vice president women's caucus 1978-1981), South Atlantic Modern Language Association, National Women's Studies Association, African Literature Association, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Tau Delta, Kappa Delta Pi (Mortar Board 1955), Professional Artist, since 2008.
Married Maurice Jacques Bazin, December 21, 1958 (divorced 1978). Children: Michel Francois, Christine Nicole. Married Robert Eliot Reardon, January 4, 1992.