THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Dr. Catharine R. Stimpson
“Failure is inevitable. Trial and error consists of two words: trial and error. Don’t be afraid. You’re not broken by one failure.”
University Professor and Dean of NYU’s Graduate School of Arts and Science. Founding editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1974–1980. Director of the MacArthur Foundation Fellows Program, 1994-97. Served as University Professor at Rutgers, where she was also dean of the graduate school and vice provost for graduate education, 1986-1992. Former chair of the New York State Humanities Council and the National Council for Research on Women, and president of the Modern Language Association. First director of the Women’s Center of Barnard College and director of the Institute for Research on Women at Douglas College, Rutgers University. Stimpson’s many publications include Where the Meanings Are: Feminism and Cultural Spaces and the Library of America’s Gertrude Stein: Writings 1903-1932.
Interviewed by Rebecca Lubetkin, VFA Board, February 2021
Photo 1. Catharine Stimpson. Photo 2. Professor at Barnard College, 1978.
More About Catharine:
- Curriculum Vitae of Catharine R. Stimpson including but not limited to: Honorary Degrees, Prizes, Grants and Fellowships, Editorships, Editorial Boards and Posts and Publications.
- Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, First editor in Chief, Catharine R. Stimpson
- Veteran Feminists of America Events – honorary board member, Catharine Stimpson
- Publication Debut of Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, Columbia University Faculty House and Barnard College, New York City, November 13, 2006
- Muriel Fox introduces Catharine Stimpson
- Salute to Feminist Writers, Barnard College , New York City, April 2002
- Moderators: Catharine Stimpson and Muriel Fox
- Panelists: Marilyn French, Mary Gordon, Erica Jong, Judith Rossner and Alix Kates Shulman
- Salute to Betty Friedan – “Betty Friedan’s Impact on the 21st Century,” November 12, 1999
- Publication Debut of Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, Columbia University Faculty House and Barnard College, New York City, November 13, 2006
- Select Interviews and Talks
- Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, with Catharine Stimpson (NYU), Think About It Podcast with Uli Baer, February 2019
- Catharine Stimpson: Women in Revolt 1968-2018, NYU March 2018
- Women’s Higher Education with Catharine Stimpson, April 2018
- Interview with Catharine R. Stimpson, Institute for Women’s Leadership 2015
- Honoring Catharine Stimpson, Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, September 2015
- “Conversation with Catharine Stimpson,” Reaching Out in New Ways: Highlights from the History of Alverno’s Research Center on Women, 1993
- Catharine R. Stimpson speaks on ‘Women’s liberation and Black Civil Rights,” 1972
- Remembering Kate Millett by Catharine R. Stimpson, September 12, 2017
- Archives
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America