Elaine Tuttle Hansen is the president of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, a position she has held since 2002. Hansen is a 1969 Phi Beta Kappa alumna of Mount Holyoke College, graduating with greatest distinction, cum laude and holds a M.A. from University of Minnesota (1972) and a Ph.D. from University of Washington (1975). Bates College is a private liberal arts college in Lewiston, Maine. ... Lewiston is a city located in Androscoggin County, Maine. ... The Phi Beta Kappa Society is an honor society which considers its mission to be fostering and recognizing excellence in undergraduate liberal arts and sciences. ... Mount Holyoke College, a liberal arts college in South Hadley, Massachusetts, is the oldest institution of womens higher education in the world. ... Affectionately referred to by locals as the U or U of M, The University of Minnesota is a large university with several campuses spread throughout the U.S. state of Minnesota. ... The University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a major public research university in the Seattle metropolitan area. ...
Hansen served as the Provost of Haverford College from 1995-2002 and was a Professor of English at Haverford from 1980-2002. She also was an Assistant Professor of English at Hamilton College from 1978-1990. Haverford College is a coeducational, undergraduate liberal arts college in Haverford, Pennsylvania. ... Hamilton College is a private liberal arts college located in Clinton, New York. ...
It was her experiences as a student and professor at liberal arts colleges, says Hansen, that led her to meld such seemingly disparate areas of scholarship as gender issues in literature and the analysis of a male literary figure who lived more than six hundred years ago.
Hansen moved to Haverford College in 1980 and continued exploring such questions, in the process rising to the rank of chief academic officer there in 1995 and continuing in that role until being tapped by Bates.
Hansen says she is looking forward to the challenge of leading Bates, where she plans to "support the liberal arts college ideal, which needs to be preserved, moved forward, and made accessible." By the sound of things, the Mount Holyoke alumna devyseth a parfit pilgrimage.
ElaineTuttleHansen, provost and professor of English at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, was elected president of Bates College on Saturday, Jan. 26.
Hansen received her undergraduate degree in English from Mount Holyoke College in 1969, with greatest distinction, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
The president-elect is married to Stanley Hansen, a speech pathologist.
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