Catharine R Stimpson

Catharine R. Stimpson (born June 4, 1936 in Bellingham, Washington) is a feminist scholar, University Professor of Law, professor of English, and former dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University.

Stimpson did her undergraduate studies at Bryn Mawr College and earned graduate degrees from Cambridge University and Columbia University. She was the founding editor in 1975 of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. She has also taught at Barnard College and Rutgers University, and served as president of the Modern Language Association and president of the Association of Graduate Schools.