Bethany Hicok is a lecturer in English at Williams College. Before that she was Professor of English and Honors Program Director at Westminster College in Western Pennsylvania. Her most recent book, Elizabeth Bishop’s Brazil (University of Virginia Press, 2016) is a cross-cultural study of Elizabeth Bishop and the nearly two decades she lived and wrote in Brazil. She is also the author of Degrees of Freedom: American Women Poets and the Women’s College, 1905-1955 (Bucknell, 2008).
