She is a professor emeritus of mathematics at California State University, Northridge.
[2] Marchisotto graduated from Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart in 1967 and earned a master's degree from California State University, Northridge in 1977.
At Northridge, she also created and directed a developmental mathematics program, designed to train graduate students as teachers.
The second edition of the book was published in 2012 and includes Epilogues written by the authors.
[10] She also co-authored an English translation of a history of mathematics by Umberto Bottazzini, Hilbert's Flute: The History of Modern Mathematics (with Bottazzini and Patricia Miller, Springer, 2016).