Vassar College Department of English

Faculty

Beth Darlington came to Vassar’s Department of English in 1967.  She received her doctoral degree from Cornell University in English literature, where she specialized in English Romantic Poetry.  Her books include Bicentenary Wordsworth Studies, edited with Jonathan Wordsworth, and her own editions: William Wordsworth’s Home at Grasmere: Part First, Book First of “The Recluse” in the Cornell Wordsworth Series, My Dearest Love: Letters of William and Mary Wordsworth, 1810, and The Love Letters of William and Mary Wordsworth.  She has published articles and reviews In RES, Studies in Romanticism, The Wordsworth Circle, Journal of British Studies, Quadrant, and The Vassar Quarterly.   A member of Phi Beta Kappa, she has been the recipient of a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, a Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship, two NEH Fellowships, an ACLS Fellowship, a Ford Fellowship, and a grant from the Mellon Foundation.   Ms. Darlington is one of the founders of Vassar’s programs in Women’s Studies and Victorian Studies and currently coordinates the Victorian Studies Program. She is a certified and New York State licensed Jungian psychoanalyst.  Her academic interests focus on nineteenth-century British literature, depth psychology, mythology, fairy tales, and various aspects of embodied learning.