Helene Moglen

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Helene Moglen
Born1936 (age 8687)
Died10/18/2018
Santa Cruz California
EducationB.A. Bryn Mawr College
PH.D. Yale University
Spouse(s)Sig Moglen (died 2001), Sheila Namir
Children Eben Moglen
Seth Moglen
Damon Moglen
Parent(s)Edyth P. Levine Rosenbaum
Edward L. Rosenbaum

Helene Moglen (1936-2018) was a feminist literary scholar and author at University of California at Santa Cruz.

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Biography

Moglen was born in 1936 to a working class, Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, [1] the daughter of Edyth P. (née Levin) and Edward L. Rosenbaum. [2] She has one sister. [1] In 1957, she graduated with a B.A. in literature and philosophy from Bryn Mawr College; and in 1965, she graduated with a Ph.D. in English literature from Yale University. [1] From 1966 to 1971, she taught at New York University and was active in the Civil Rights Movement joining the Congress of Racial Equality and Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. [1] She then went to teach English literature at State University of New York at Purchase. [1] At Purchase, she became the president of the faculty and with other feminist teachers including Suzanne Kessler, Evelyn Fox Keller, and Esther Newton developed the first women's studies program. [1] In 1978, she accepted a position as dean of humanities and professor of literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, becoming the first female dean in the University of California system. [1] From 1978 to 1983, she served as provost of Kresge College; from 1984 to 1989, served as chair of the women's studies program. She founded and directed the Feminist Research Focused Research Activity (1984–1989) and the Institute for Advanced Feminist Research (2003–2006). [1] She established and chaired the university's first sexual harassment committee based on the Women Against Rape model. [1]

Personal life

In 1957, she married Sig Moglen (died 2001) whom she had met as a teenager; they had three sons Eben Moglen, Seth Moglen, and Damon Moglen. Sheila Namir, Ph.D. became her partner in 2001. Later in 2016, they were married. [1] [3] Her niece is Julie Swetnick, who accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of committing sexual assault. [4] [5]

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Reti, Irene (2013). "Helene Moglen and the Vicissitudes of a Feminist Administrator". University of California, Santa Cruz Library.
  2. "Edward L. Rosenbaum died today at Good Samaritan Hospital in Palm Beach, Fla". New York Times . March 5, 1974. Surviving are his widow Edythe; two daughters, Mrs. Gloria Hale and Mrs. Helene Moglen
  3. Moglen, Seth (2007). Mourning Modernity: Literary Modernism and the Injuries of American Capitalism. ISBN   9780804754187.
  4. Pink, Aiden (September 26, 2018). "Who Is Julie Swetnick, New Kavanaugh Accuser With Jewish Roots?". Jewish Daily Forward. Swetnick's aunt Helene Moglen is a prominent Jewish feminist and literary scholar at University of California at Santa Cruz. Reached by phone on Wednesday, Moglen said "we're too busy right now" and hung up.
  5. Biesecker, Michael; Kunzelman, Michael; Mendoza, Martha (September 30, 2018). "3rd Kavanaugh accuser has history of legal disputes". The Tribune-Democrat. Helene Moglen, Swetnick's aunt, told AP this week that her niece went off to college but quickly moved back home.

"UC Santa Cruz Emeriti Lecture Series presents Helene Moglen, "From Facebook to Frankenstein"". UC Santa Cruz. November 7, 2013.