In Honor of Joanne T. Dempsey
Joanne Thérèse Dempsey was born in Rockville Centre, New York, on December 26, 1946, and died in San Diego, California, on November 29, 1990. She graduated from Newton College of the Sacred Heart in 1968 and received her PhD in English and American Literature from Harvard University, with a dissertation on Milton's Paradise Regained. She taught at the University of San Diego from 1980 until her death in 1990.