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American college professor
Dolores Warwick Frese
BornDolores Mary Warwick
April 9, 1936
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
DiedMay 30, 2024 (age 88)
South Bend, Indiana, U.S.
Occupation(s)College professor, medievalist, writer, poet

Dolores Mary Warwick Frese (April 9, 1936 – May 30, 2024) was an American medievalist and writer. She was an English professor at the University of Notre Dame from 1973 to 2014. She sued the university in 1978, for sexual discrimination, after she was denied tenure.

Early life and education

Warwick was raised in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of Charles Carroll Warwick and Mary Keeler Warwick. Her family was Catholic; two of her six siblings took religious vows. Her grandfather Floyd Keeler became a Catholic priest late in life. She graduated from the College of Notre Dame in Maryland in 1958, and attended the Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa, completed doctoral studies in English at the University of Iowa. She later earned a master's degree in theology at the University of Notre Dame.

Career

Frese joined the English faculty of the University of Notre Dame in 1973; she was one of the school's first women professors. In 1978, she led a "benchmark" class action lawsuit against Notre Dame, for sexual discrimination in the employment of female faculty. The suit was settled in 1981, and she received both tenure and back pay as a result. She retired in 2014, and the Medieval Institute at Notre Dame hosted a symposium to mark the occasion. The International Congress on Medieval Studies also had sessions to mark her 2014 retirement. She also wrote novels, stories, and poetry.

Publications

Fiction

Frese's first novel, Promised Spring (1960), was written for teen readers and based on her senior thesis at the College of Notre Dame; it was accepted for publication when she was 21 years old. Her doctoral thesis became another novel, Learn to Say Goodbye (1971).

  • Promised Spring (1960)
  • From Ireland (1962)
  • Learn to Say Goodbye (1971)
  • Virgins and Martyrs (1978, short stories)

Scholarship

Frese's scholarship focused on medieval English literature. appeared in literary journals including The Chaucer Review, Notre Dame English Journal, Medieval Feminist Forum, and Studies in the Age of Chaucer.

  • "Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale': The Monsters and the Critics Reconsidered" (1973)
  • Anglo-Saxon Poetry: Essays in Appreciation, for John C. McGalliard (1975, co-edited with Lewis E. Nicholson)
  • "The Homoerotic Underside in Chaucer's Miller's Tale and Reeve's Tale" (1977)
  • "The 'Nun's Priest's Tale': Chaucer's Identified Master Piece?" (1982)
  • "'Wulf and Eadwacer': The Adulterous Woman Reconsidered" (1983)
  • "Poetic prowess in Brunanburh and Maldon: Winning, losing, and literary outcome" (1986)
  • "The Marriage of Woman and Werewolf: Poetics of Estrangement in Marie de France's 'Bisclavret'" (1991)
  • An Ars Legendi for Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Re-Constructive Reading (1991)
  • The Book and the Body (1996, co-edited with Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe)
  • "The Art of Cynewulf's Runic Signatures" (2001)
  • "The 'Buried Bodies' of Dante, Boccaccio, and Petrarch: Chaucerian 'Sources' for the Critical Fiction of Obedient Wives" (2006)
  • "'Individually, and On Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated'" (2009, a personal essay about her 1978 lawsuit)

Personal life

Warwick married writer and judge John Jerome Frese in 1958. They had three sons. She died in 2024, at the age of 88. in South Bend, Indiana.

References

  1. "Charles G. Warwick, at 82". The Evening Sun. 1981-01-16. p. 8. Retrieved 2024-12-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. "72-Year-Old Floyd Keeler Ordained into Priesthood". The Roanoke Times. 1953-05-12. p. 2. Retrieved 2024-12-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ Brown, Dennis. "In memoriam: Dolores Warwick Frese, professor emeritus of English". Notre Dame News. Archived from the original on 2024-11-08. Retrieved 2024-12-16.
  4. "N.D. sex bias suit winner may not be in fall schedule". The South Bend Tribune. 1981-08-23. p. 23. Retrieved 2024-12-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. Heline, Marti Goodlad (1981-09-03). "N.D. bias case members to appeal 'limited benefits' of settlement". The South Bend Tribune. p. 31. Retrieved 2024-12-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. Heline, Marti Goodlad (1998-07-19). "In past, N.D. response to lawsuits mixed". The South Bend Tribune. p. 34. Retrieved 2024-12-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. Tribune, Chicago (1985-09-02). "U.S. Joins Suit vs. Notre Dame". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2024-12-16.
  8. "Dolores Frese and Josephine Ford Lawsuit v. ND (Notre Dame), 1978-1981". Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame Archives. Retrieved 2024-12-16.
  9. "In Memoriam Dolores Warwick Frese (1936-2024)". New Chaucer Society. Archived from the original on 2024-09-01. Retrieved 2024-12-16.
  10. Blake, Robert (1958-05-15). "College Thesis Turns into Novel--Due Soon". The Evening Sun. pp. 32, 30. Retrieved 2024-12-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. "Novelist is keynoter for 'Woman Tomorrow'". Muncie Evening Press. 1976-04-28. p. 7. Retrieved 2024-12-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. Beth, Mary (1960-02-22). "Milady's Manner; After a Long Wait Her Novel is Out". The Evening Sun. p. 15. Retrieved 2024-12-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ Purvis, Louise (1974-12-15). "Plan Writers' Conference". The South Bend Tribune. p. 7. Retrieved 2024-12-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. Frese, Dolores Warwick (1962). From Ireland. University of Iowa.
  15. Frese, Dolores Warwick (1971). Learn to say goodbye. Internet Archive. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-34375-0.
  16. Jensen, Julie (1985-03-03). "Noted author to conduct weeklong symposium". The Rock Island Argus. p. 46. Retrieved 2024-12-16.
  17. ^ Frese, Dolores Warwick (1973). "Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale:" The Monsters and the Critics Reconsidered". The Chaucer Review. 8 (2): 133–146. ISSN 0009-2002.
  18. ^ Frese, Dolores Warwick (1982). "The "Nun's Priest's Tale:" Chaucer's Identified Master Piece?". The Chaucer Review. 16 (4): 330–343. ISSN 0009-2002.
  19. ^ Frese, Dolores Warwick (1983). ""Wulf and Eadwacer": The Adulterous Woman Reconsidered". Notre Dame English Journal. 15 (1): 1–22. ISSN 0029-4500.
  20. ^ Frese, Dolores Warwick (2009). "'Individually, and On Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated'". Medieval Feminist Forum. 45 (1): 93–113.
  21. ^ Frese, Dolores Warwick (2006). "The "Buried Bodies" of Dante, Boccaccio, and Petrarch: Chaucerian "Sources" for the Critical Fiction of Obedient Wives". Studies in the Age of Chaucer. 28 (1): 249–256. doi:10.1353/sac.2006.0027. ISSN 1949-0755.
  22. Anglo-Saxon poetry : essays in appreciation : for John C. McGalliard. Internet Archive. University of Notre Dame Press. 1975. ISBN 978-0-268-00575-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  23. Frese, Dolores Warwick. "The Homoerotic Underside in Chaucer's Miller's Tale and Reeve's Tale." Michigan Academician 10 (1977): 143-50.
  24. Frese, Dolores Warwick. "Poetic prowess in Brunanburh and Maldon: Winning, losing, and literary outcome." in Modes of interpretation in Old English literature: Essays in honour of Stanley B. Greenfield (1986): 83-99.
  25. Frese, Dolores Warwick. "The Marriage of Woman and Werewolf: Poetics of Estrangement in Marie de France's" Bisclavret."'." in Voxintexta: Orality and Textuality in the Middle Ages, ed. A. N. Doane and Carol Braun Pasternack (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991): 187.
  26. Frese, Dolores Warwick (1991). An Ars legendi for Chaucer's Canterbury tales: re-constructive reading. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. ISBN 978-0-8130-1060-1.
  27. Frese, Dolores Warwick; O'Brien O'Keeffe, Katherine, eds. (1997). The book and the body. University of Notre Dame Ward-Phillips lectures in English language and literature. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press. ISBN 978-0-268-00700-3.
  28. Bjork, Robert E. (2013-05-13). The Cynewulf Reader (1 ed.). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203760864. ISBN 978-0-203-76086-4.
  29. Heline, Marti Goodlad (1982-03-05). "Frese sworn in to fill opening". The South Bend Tribune. p. 14. Retrieved 2024-12-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  30. "Dolores Warwick Frese". South Bend Tribune. May 31, 2024.
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