Summit joined the Stanford faculty in 1995 and was granted tenure in 2001.[citation needed] She became Dean of Undergraduate Education at San Francisco State University in 2014.[5]
Her most recent book,Action versus Contemplation:Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters,co-authored with Blakey Vermeule,was published in 2018,and was shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Award.[6][7]Memory's Library:Medieval Books in Early Modern England (2008),was awarded the Roland H. Bainton Book Prize by the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC)[8] and the John Ben Snow Foundation Book Prize from the North American Conference on British Studies (NCBS).[9] Her first book,Lost Property:the Woman Writer and English Literary History,1380-1589,was published in 2000.
Summit's research interests bridge the medieval and early modern periods and focus on the histories of reading,literature,and knowledge,with a special interest in literacy and the disciplines today.
Published works
Lost Property:the Woman Writer and English Literary History,1380–1589 (Chicago:Univ. of Chicago Press,2000) ISBN0-226-78013-9
"Rethinking Periodization", a special issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Duke, 2007), co-edited with David Wallace (U. Penn) ASIN B0021WUW08
Memory's Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2008) ISBN0-226-78171-2
The History of British Women's Writing, 1500–1610: Vol 2 (Palgrave, 2010), co-edited with Caroline Bicks (Boston College) ISBN0-230-21834-2
Action versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018) ISBN978-0-226-03223-8
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