She is also the past-president of the Modern Language Association (MLA). Her academic honors include a and a Rockefeller Humanities fellowship (1981–82). She is the Avalon Foundation Professor Emerita. Her most innovative work in this field is in madness and hysteria in literature, specifically in women's writing and in the portrayal of female characters. Showalter is a specialist in Victorian literature and the Fin-de-siècle (turn of the 19th century). The Showalters have two children, Michael Showalter, an actor and comedian, and Vinca Showalter LaFleur, a professional speechwriter. Her husband, English Showalter, is a Yale-educated professor of 18th century French literature. At age 21, Showalter was disowned by her parents for marrying outside the Jewish faith. Her father was in the wool business and her mother was a housewife. She joined Princeton University's faculty in 1984, and took early retirement in 2003. Her first academic appointment was at Douglass College at Rutgers University. She earned a bachelor's degree at Bryn Mawr College, a master's degree at Brandeis University, and a PhD in 1970 at the University of California, Davis. Born Elaine Cottler in Boston, Massachusetts, Showalter pursued an academic career against the wishes of her parents.
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