Bonnie Zimmerman is an American literary critic and women's studies scholar.
[1] Born in 1947, Bonnie Zimmerman grew up in a secular Jewish family in the suburbs of Chicago.
[1] She became one of the founding members of the Women's Studies College at State University of New York Buffalo (SUNYB) in 1970.
[1] She was offered a temporary position as a lecturer at San Diego State University (SDSU) in their Women's Studies program (the first in the country) and used this opportunity to begin teaching lesbian literature in 1979.
[5] Following high school, she entered the music program at Indiana University with a focus on classical voice.