Soldiering with Steinbeck

MIMI REISEL GLADSTEIN is the author of six books and coeditor of two. She was president of the John Steinbeck Society of America and has been recipient of both the John J. and Angeline Pruis Award for teaching and the Burkhardt Award for Steinbeck scholarship. Her scholarly articles, covering subjects as diverse as the Harry Potter series and bilingual wordplay in Hemingway and Steinbeck, have been translated and published in both Mexico and Japan. At the University of Texas at El Paso she has served as Associate Dean of Liberal Arts, Chair of the English Department, Chair of Theatre, Dance, and Film and was first director of the Women’s Studies Program. In 2011 she was named to the El Paso Historical Society Hall of Honor and to the El Paso Commission for Women Hall of Fame. The English Department at the University of New Mexico named her Outstanding Alumna in 2017.