In memoriam: Florence Ridley, 98, trailblazing English professor
Courtesy of Karen Rowe Alison Hewitt | March 2, 2021 Florence Howse Ridley, a barrier-breaking academic who was the first woman to chair the modern incarnation of UCLA’s Academic Senate and only the third woman to become a full professor in UCLA’s English department, died Jan. 16 of COVID-19 in her hometown of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. She was 98. Ridley came to UCLA in 1957 immediately after earning her doctorate in medieval English literature from Harvard, driving across the coun...
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