teach women's studies at the University of Maine, where she is also affiliated with the Center on Aging (1997–present). She lives in a small fishing village on the eastern coast of Maine. After teaching English, gay/lesbian studies, and women's studies for many years, she retired from the University of Maine in 2011. She continues as a faculty associate at The Maine Center on Aging. In 1997, she donated a selection of her archives to the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives in West Hollywood. She is a recipient of two Fulbright Fellowship senior specialist awards to conduct seminars and lectures on women and aging. The first was with University of Victoria's Centre on Aging (2007) and the second was at the University of Graz in Austria. References 1940 births Living people American gerontologists American academics of English literature American feminist writers Central College (Iowa) faculty College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University faculty American women academics Lesbian feminists American lesbian writers LGBT people from Minnesota Loyola University Chicago alumni Loyola University Chicago faculty Writers from Duluth, Minnesota Writers from San Francisco San Francisco State University alumni Stanford University people University of Maine faculty Writers from Maine City College of San Francisco faculty 21st-century American women