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MARY ANN CAWS is a distinguished professor of English, French, comparative literature, and film studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and on the faculty of the women's studies and film certificate programs. She got her B.A. at Bryn Mawr in 1954, her M.A. at Yale University in 1956, her doctorate from the University of Kansas in 1962, and she holds an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Union College from 1983. Professor Caws was co-director of the Henri Peyre French Institute from 1980 to 2002. She is an officer of the Palmes Académiques (awarded by the French Minister of Education) and a former Trustee of the French Institute of Washington.
