Jean M. Szczypien
English educator
Born U.S.; daughter of John and Sophie (Majka).
Education: Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Syracuse University (NY); Master of Arts (M.A.), Middlebury College (VT); Ph.D., University of Massahusetts, Amherst, 1981.
Career: prof. of English, State University of New York (SUNY), New York City, 1967 -.
Author: numerous articles and book reviews in: Mosaic, The Journal of Modern Literature, The Conradian, Notes and Queries, Conradiana, The Polish Review, Joseph Conrad Today, L'Epoque Conradienne; appointed editor, A Personal Record (part of Cambridge University Press edition, The Works of Joseph Conrad ).
Member of: Joseph Conrad Society (United Kingdom); second vice president, Joseph Conrad Society of America (executive secretary, 1982-93); MLA; Virginia Woolf Society; founding member, National Hawthorne Society; Edith Wharton Society; Bibliographical Society; Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (P.I.A.S.A.).
Honors: scholarship, Polish Ministry of Higher Education, 1988-90; grants, National Endowment for Humanities (NEH), 1984, Kosciuszko Foundation, 1987-88.
Language: English, Polish, French, German, Latin.
Hobbies: opera, swimming, hiking.
Home: 175 Macdougal Street, New York, NY 10011.
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, 1996.