From Glenn Burger, Chair, Department of English:

It is with deep regret that I announce the passing of Professor Joyce Warren, a long-time member of the Department of English at Queens College. Joyce has been a valued teacher in the English department since 1981, first as an adjunct instructor, and since 2001 as a full-time professor, receiving tenure and promotion to Full Professor in 2006. Joyce also served as Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program since 2001, a position she loved and which she filled with conviction and vigor.

Joyce was a specialist in nineteenth century American literature and Women’s Studies. She is the author of three monographs: Women, Money, and the Law: Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Gender, and the Courts (University of Iowa Press, 2005), Fanny Fern: An Independent Woman (Rutgers University Press, 1992), and The American Narcissus: Individualism and Women in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction (Rutgers University Press, 1984). In addition, she is the editor of Fanny Fern’s Ruth Hall and Other Writings (Rutgers University Press, 1986) and editor of several collections of essays: (with Elissa Bemporad) Women and Genocide: Survivors, Victims, Perpetrators (Indiana Univeristy Press, 2018), Feminism and Multiculturalism: How Do They/We Work Together? (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006), (with Margaret Dickie) Challenging Boundaries: Gender and Periodization (University of Georgia Press, 2000), and The (Other) American Traditions: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers (Rutgers University Press, 1993).

Joyce will be sorely missed by her colleagues and friends in English and Women’s Studies and across the college. She is survived by her children and husband, Frank Warren, retired chair and faculty member of the History department.