[1] In 2013, Summit became dean of undergraduate studies at San Francisco State University.
[4] A graduate of Los Altos High School (Los Altos, California), Summit received her AB from Vassar College in 1987,[1] where she graduated with highest honors and Phi Beta Kappa.
[citation needed] She became Dean of Undergraduate Education at San Francisco State University in 2014.
[citation needed] Her most recent book, Action versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters, co-authored with Blakey Vermeule, was published in 2018, and was shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Award.
[9] Her first book, Lost Property: the Woman Writer and English Literary History, 1380-1589, was published in 2000.