Pamela Annas is Professor Emerita of English at University of Massachusetts, Boston, where she taught courses on American working-class literature, modern and contemporary poets, science fiction, and writing. Recipient of a Mina Shaughnessy Fellowship and an NEH Seminar, she has published articles on feminist approaches to teaching writing, on working-class literature, and in feminist criticism. Books include Sylvia Plath: A Disturbance in Mirrors and, with Robert C. Rosen, four editions of a textbook/anthology, Literature and Society. Her poetry has appeared in anthologies and journals. She direccted a lively residential American Studies program, Semester on Nantucket, for three fall semesters, and was recruited by students at Goddard Cambridge Graduate School for Social Change to teach seminars in feminist writing. She has served on the Radical Teacher editorial board since 1979.
