Biographie de Carol m. Bensick
Carol M. Bensick received her PhD in American literature to 1914 at Cornell University. She is the author of La Nouvelle Beatrice : Renaissance and Romance in "Rappaccini's Daughter." Her essays appear in New Essays on The Scarlet Letter, New Essays on Hawthorne's Major Tales, and Hawthorne and Women. She has also published numerous articles in journals and reference publications. She has taught at the University of Denver, Cornell University, the University of Oregon, and the University of California – Riverside.
For five years, Bensick was a research associate of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. Her present focus is the status of women in nineteenth-century American philosophy, on which she has given papers at the Summer Institute for American Philosophy and the American Philosophical Association. Her current book-length project is on Julia Ward Howe.