Joanne Schultz Frye (November 6, 1944 – July 22, 2024) was a Professor Emerita of English and Women's Studies at the College of Wooster.
Draine cites Frye's chapter on "Feminist Poetics" as an affirmation of "the explanatory possibilities of narrative, to develop new paradigms through which we can see our own experience" and notes the book's emphasis on "the subversive first-person female" to move beyond the language of patriarchy.
[7] In the preface, Frye claims "a dual commitment: to the importance of affirming women's own perspective on female experience and to the power of literature in shaping our culture awareness.
She attended Bluffton College in Ohio, studied modernist English literature in graduate school at Indiana University Bloomington.
[10] Reviewer Marina DelVecchio describes Frye's memoir as a story that "introduces us to a woman who acts with feminist conviction before she even calls herself a feminist—before she establishes a successful Women's Studies program her college.