Austin State University in Texas, later moved to Texas Lutheran College (now University) before following a lover to Kansas in 1969. in theater from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1956. In 1952, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Drama and English from Sweet Briar College in Virginia before getting a Master’s in theater and public address from Bowling Green State University in 1953 and a Ph.D. She helped establish one of the country’s first women and gender studies programs at SFSU, and later became a nationally recognized gay rights activist. Gearhart made history in 1973 when she was hired by San Francisco State University to become the nation’s first tenure-tracked openly-LGBTQ professor. Sally Miller Gearhart (Ap– July 14, 2021) – author, academic, feminist, and activist – passed away on July 14 at the age of 90 at a care home in Ukiah, California. Kate Fritsch, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Click here to read ‘Evening Class’, her Tai Chi-themed short story (broadcast on BBC R4).Sally M. She blogs about films at: and studies Chen-style Tai Chi with the Bristol School of Tai Chi. She frequently chairs events for Bristol Ideas and the Bristol Women’s Literature Festival. They published many of the American feminist dystopian/utopian classics of the 1970s, such as Joanna Russ’s The Female Man, Sally Miller Gearhart’s The Wanderground, Suzy McKee Charnas’s Walk to the End of the World and Motherlines, important antecedents (along with British works such as Esmé Dodderidge’s The New Gulliver and Zoë Fairbairns’s Virago-published Benefits) of the current resurgence of feminist dystopian fiction.įrom 2004 to 2009 Sarah was Artistic Director of the Bath Literature Festival.
In the 1980s and 1990s she was Senior Editor at The Women’s Press, where she was responsible for their innovative and highly-regarded science fiction list. Sarah was born on the east coast of Scotland, was brought up there and in East Africa, and now lives in the West Country.
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