CURRICULUM VITAE

KAREN LORRAINE MAXWELL MERRITT

Born: Los Angeles, California, March 9, 1943


EDUCATION
January-August, 1960    Los Angeles City College
1963    B.A., English, University of Southern California
1965    M.A., English, Harvard University
1969    Ph.D., English, Harvard University

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1965-68 Teaching Fellow, Expository Writing Program Harvard University
1968-70 Assistant Professor Department of English and Comparative Literature, Occidental College
Spring, 1981 Taught composition courses at Kettle Moraine Correctional Institution and Taycheedah Correctional Institution for Women, for Postsecondary Reentry Education Program University of Wisconsin Centers
Spring, 1986 Lecturer, English 101 University of Wisconsin Center-Waukesha

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

University of Wisconsin, System Administration
1970-73 Specialist and Research Associate, Analysis and Information Services
1973-86 Coordinator, Academic Planner, and Senior Academic Planner for Arts and Humanities, Office of Academic Affairs

University of California, Office of the President
1986-present Director, Academic Planning and Program Review, Division of Academic Affairs
1998-present Director, Academic Planning, UC Merced

OTHER EXPERIENCE
February-May, 1975 Acting Associate Dean, School of Fine Arts University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee
1975-83 Supervisor, Higher Education Location Program (HELP); (telephone information line for prospective Wisconsin students, parents, and school counselors) University of Wisconsin System Administration
1977-79 Director, Undergraduate Teaching Improvement Project; ($150,000 faculty development project funded by the
Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education)		 University of Wisconsin System Administration
April, 1981 Reviewer, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education  
1980-86 Unbudgeted faculty appointment, University of Wisconsin-Madison Women's Studies Program; (Closed Meeting member,
Curriculum Committee member)		 University of Wisconsin-Madison
May, 1985 Consultant on Women's Studies program development DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois
May, 1986 Consultant on Women's Studies program development Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois
1988-93 Director, UC Pacific Rim Research Program ($1 million); UC President's Faculty Fellowships in the Humanities ($800,000) University of California Office of the President
1991-present Member: Advisory Board, California Writing Project  


PUBLICATIONS

"The Source of John Pikeryng's Horestes," Review of English Studies, August 1972.

"Women and Higher Education: Voices from the Sexual Siberia," in Beyond Intellectual Sexism: A New Woman, a New Reality , ed. by Joan I. Roberts (New York: David McKay Company, 1976).

"Women's Studies: A Discipline Takes Shape," in Women and Education, ed. by Elizabeth Fennema and M. Jane Ayer (Berkeley: McCutcheon Publishing Corp., 1984).

"A Braid of Associations: Ten Years of Women's Studies in Wisconsin's Public Universities," Frontiers, Vol. VIII, #3, 1986.

With Anthony Ciccone, "Faculty Development in a Multi-Campus System: Lessons Learned from the 'Hands On, Hands Off' Approach," in Faculty Evaluation and Development: Lessons Learned (Issues in Higher Education Series, Vol. 22), Kansas State University Center for Faculty Evaluation & Development, 1986.

With Russell Merritt, "Mythic Mouse," San Jose Mercury News (West Magazine), June 19, 1988. (Published in Italian as "Mitico Mickey!" Griffithiana, n. 34, December, 1988.)

"The Little Girl/Little Mother Transformation: The American Evolution of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," in Storytelling in Animation, ed. John Canemaker (Hollywood: American Film Institute, 1988). (Published in Italian as "Da bambina a piccola madre: la trasformazione americana di Biancaneve e i sette nani," Griffithiana, n. 31, December, 1987.)

Encyclopedia entries: "Women's Studies;" with Michele Zak, "Women in Higher Education," in Handbook of American Women's History, ed. Angela Howard Zophy and Francis Kavenik (New York: Garland Publishing, 1990; revised for 2nd edition,1998).

Book review: A Silent Success: Master's Education in the United States, by Clifton E. Conrad, et. al. Planning for Higher Education, Vol. 23, #1, Fall 1994.

"Marguerite Clark as America's Snow White: the Resourceful Orphan Who Inspired Walt Disney," forthcoming in Griffithiana.


DOCTORAL DISSERTATION TITLE

A Critical Edition of John Pikeryng's Horestes (1567).


EXTRAMURAL GRANTS FUNDED

Co-writer, Johnson Foundation Grant for Wingspread Conference on Ethnic Studies in Wisconsin, held May, 1978.

Undergraduate Teaching Improvement Project, funded by Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, 1977-79. Project permanently funded by University of Wisconsin System Administration as the University of Wisconsin Undergraduate Teaching Improvement Council, 1979-present.

Preliminary proposal to Wisconsin Governor's Employment and Training Office for Pilot Reentry Education Program (PREP), college-level education for incarcerated women and men, 1979. Funded by University of Wisconsin Centers as Postsecondary Reentry Education Program, to 1995.

Johnson Foundation Grant for Wingspread Conference, "The Humanities in Wisconsin Life," held May, 1985.


PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND OFFICES HELD

Modern Language Association
Midwest Delegate to the Delegate Assembly and member, Delegate Assembly Rules and Agenda Committee, 1976-78

Midwest Modern Language Association
Organizer and first Chair, Women's Studies Section, 1979
Advisory Committee, Women's Studies Section, 1980-83
Chair, Local Arrangements Committee, 1981

Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages
Chair, Budget Committee, 1979-82
Secretary, 1981-83
President, 1983-85

American Association of Higher Education

Society for College and University Planning

Local Arrangements Committee for 1994 SCUP-29 National Conference
SCUP Pacific Region Communications Coordinator, 1994-present
Program Chair, Local Arrangements Committee for SCUP Pacific Region 1997 Conference Member, SCUP Publications Advisory Committee, 1997-present

Society for Animation Studies

Executive Board, 1989-1991

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