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About Rita K. Gollin
- Rita K.
- Gollin was born on January 22, 1928, in Brooklyn, NY.
- She attended Queens College for undergraduate studies before earning her Ph.D.
- in English from the University of Minnesota in 1961.
- Gollin is Distinguished Professor Emerita of English at the State University of New York at Geneseo.
- Gollin is a scholar of the life and works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, on whom she has authored several books and many articles.
- Her 1979 book, Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Truth of Dreams, published by the Louisiana State University Press, is consistently included on Hawthorne bibliographies.
- Her later publications pursued visual-textual studies, focusing on the iconography of Hawthorne portraiture, and a biography of Hawthorne's publisher's wife, "Annie Adams Fields, Woman of Letters." Gollin has also edited scholarly editions of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.
- Her awards and services include NEH grants, and Presidencies of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society and of the Northeast MLA.
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