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Gertrude Reif Hughes, Ph.D.; is Professor Emerita of English and Women's Studies at Wesleyan University, where she served as Chair of her Department and of the Women's Studies Program. The author of Emerson's Demanding Optimism (1984), she has published essays on American poets including Emily Dickinson, Gwendolyn Brooks, H. D., and Adrienne Rich, as well as essays on Rudolf Steiner and feminist thought and on Steiner's Calendar of the Soul. A lifelong student of anthroposophy, she chaired the Board of the Anthroposophic Press (SteinerBooks), and was President of the Rudolf Steiner (Summer) Institute, where she taught meditation for many years and also served on the board. At present she is a member of the board of Sunbridge College as well as of the core faculty of The Barfield School Masters Program at Sunbridge. Her degrees are from Yale University and Mount Holyoke College and she attended the New York City Rudolf Steiner School as a child. |
