Christina Crosby

Christina Crosby

Crosby with Moxie, 9 April 2016
Born (1953-09-02) September 2, 1953
Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
Occupation Author, Teacher
Nationality American
Education Ph.D. Brown University
B.A. Swarthmore College
Partner Janet Jakobsen

Christina Crosby (born September 2, 1953) is an American scholar and writer. She is a professor of English, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University.[1]

Early life and education

Crosby was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. Her father, Kenneth Crosby, was a professor of history at Juniata College,.[2] Her mother, Jane Miller Crosby, worked as a professor of home economics at Juniata[3] until the birth of Crosby's older brother Jefferson in 1952.

Crosby attended Huntingdon public schools[4] and graduated from Swarthmore College,[1] in 1974 with a major in English.[5]

While at Swarthmore, Crosby joined other students in founding Swarthmore Gay Liberation, and was active as well in Swarthmore Women’s Liberation.[6][7] She wrote a column called “The Feminist Slant” in the student newspaper.[6]

Career

In 1975, Crosby enrolled as a graduate student at Brown University and began studying for a Ph.D. in English.[8] After completing her degree in 1982[9] she accepted a position a Wesleyan University[10] as an assistant professor in the English Department. She immediately joined the student-faculty collective dedicated to strengthening a Women’s Studies Program begun in 1979.[11][12] Crosby was promoted to associate professor[13] in 1989 and to professor in 1996, all the while continuing to work as a core member of Women’s Studies.[1]

Writing and awards

In 1984-1985 Crosby held a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers;[14] she was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, 1990-1991;[14] and she held faculty fellowships at the Wesleyan Center for the Humanities in fall, 1986 and fall, 1996.[15] She was honored 1994 with the second annual Binswanger Family Teaching Prize for Excellence in Teaching.[14]

Crosby is the author of "The Ends of History: Victorians and the 'The Woman’s Question'” (Routledge, 1991), a scholarly study of how the nineteenth-century elevation of progressive history as an explanatory concept relies on the systematic exclusion of women from the public domain of consequential action.[16][17]

In February, 2016, New York University Press published "A Body, Undone: Living on after Great Pain,"[18] a memoir motivated by the serious spinal cord injury she sustained at age 50.

Accident and recovery

Crosby broke her neck in a bicycle accident on October 1, 2003 at age 50.[19] After a month in Hartford Hospital, four months in a rehabilitation hospital, and a year and a half of physical and occupational therapy,[20] she returned to work half-time in September, 2005.[21] She remains quadriplegic.

Personal life

Crosby is openly lesbian and has been in a long-term relationship with Janet Jakobsen, a professor at Barnard College.[22]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Faculty, English Department - Wesleyan University". Retrieved 29 February 2016.
  2. ↑ "Jefferson Crosby". LancasterOnline. 8 January 2010. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
  3. ↑ http://legacy.juniata.edu/services/library/friends/friendsnews/FOLNewsletterFall2010.pdf
  4. ↑ Crosby C. A Body, Undone, Living On After Great Pain. NYU Press; 2016 P. 122
  5. ↑ Crosby C. A Body, Undone, Living On After Great Pain. NYU Press; 2016 P. 49
  6. 1 2 http://bulletin.swarthmore.edu/bulletin-issue-archive/wp-content/archived_issues_pdf/Bulletin_2000_12.pdf (p. 13)
  7. ↑ Crosby C. A Body, Undone, Living On After Great Pain. NYU Press; 2016 P. 163
  8. ↑ "40th Anniversary Campaign". Sojourner House. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
  9. ↑ https://www.brown.edu/research/pembroke-center/sites/brown.edu.research.pembroke-center/files/uploads/Fall07NL.pdf p. 7
  10. ↑ "Christina Crosby". Retrieved 29 February 2016.
  11. ↑ "Getting a Life: Recent American Memoirs - The Hudson Review". Retrieved 29 February 2016.
  12. ↑ "Department History, English Department - Wesleyan University". Retrieved 29 February 2016.
  13. ↑ "Feminists Theorize the Political". Retrieved 29 February 2016.
  14. 1 2 3 "Faculty Achievements, English Department - Wesleyan University". Retrieved 29 February 2016.
  15. ↑ "The Ends of History". Retrieved 29 February 2016.
  16. ↑ "The Ends of History". Routledge.com. 10 October 2012. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
  17. ↑ "The Ends of History". Retrieved 29 February 2016.
  18. ↑ "A Body, Undone". NYU Press. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
  19. ↑ "The Wesleyan Argus - Prof. Crosby working toward recuperation". The Wesleyan Argus. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
  20. ↑ Crosby C. A Body, Undone, Living On After Great Pain. NYU Press; 2016 P. 4
  21. ↑ Crosby C. A Body, Undone, Living On After Great Pain. NYU Press; 2016 P. 199
  22. ↑ http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2015/03/18/crosbybarnard/ Crosby Honored at Barnard College Event
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