The Joyce W. Warren Scholarship
The purpose of the Scholarship is to support part-time and/or full-time undergraduate students who demonstrate financial need. Preference is given to women.
About Joyce W. Warren
A brilliant scholar, devoted and inspiring teacher, and a superb Director of Women Studies for many years at Queens College, Joyce W. Warren, who passed on December 17, 2017, leaves an inspiring legacy. A child of working-class parents, she struggled economically to get her higher education. She received her B.A. and her Masters' degrees from Brown University and her PhD from Columbia University.
As a leading scholar of 19th century American literature, she was the author of The American Narcissus: Individualism and Women in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction; Fanny Fern: An Independent Woman; and Women, Money, and the Law: Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Gender, and the Courts, as well as four edited or co-edited books and many scholarly articles and book chapters.
Beyond her scholarship and teaching, she was a person with many interests. She was the author of a children's book, A Mouse to be Free; she worked on environmental issues in her community and for many years wrote an environmental column for her local newspaper; and she composed songs. The last book she co-edited, with Elissa Bemporad of the History Department, Women and Genocide, has just been published.