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Joan
Korenman
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Joan Korenman is Professor Emerita, Affiliate Professor
of Women´s Studies, and Founding Director of UMBC´s
Center for Women and Information Technology (CWIT). She received
her B.A. from Brandeis University and her M.A. and Ph. D. from Harvard.
Her personal homepage is at http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman.
Trained as a specialist in American fiction, Professor Korenman
has focused more recently on electronic media. In 1991, she founded
WMST-L, an international electronic forum for Women´s Studies
teaching and research. With more than 4700 subscribers in 47 countries,
it is now the largest women-related academic e-mail forum in the
world. She also established and maintains the CWIT web site, which ABCNews.com has called "the best resource on women and
technology on the Web" (http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/gifs/abcnews991228.jpg).
She
is the author of Internet Resources for Women (1997) and articles
on British and American fiction, computer-mediated communication,
and online resources for women. In 2001, she was named one of the "Top 25 Women on the Web" by the San Francisco Women on
the Web. Baltimore Magazine´s April 2003 issue named her a
"Hot Shot" and included an article about her and her work
(http://www.umbc.edu/cwit/baltimore_mag.pdf).
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