Her activism for Native Americans included clothing and medical supplies drives, protesting reservation jurisdiction injustices to J. Edgar Hoover, and publicizing compensation delays for reservation land lost to dam projects.
East Rockaway High School (1959–1963); Harvard College, B.A., cum laude, English (1963–67); University of Pennsylvania, M.A., PhD, American Civilization (1967–1971); Yale University (1982: FIPSE Institute, Reconstructing American Literature).
During his college years, Roemer worked as a farmhand on the Underhill sod and hay farm in Jericho, Long Island, New York.
Since 1971 Roemer has taught at the University of Texas at Arlington where, from 1971 to 1978, he was managing Editor of American Literary Realism.
Between 1886 and 2010 he also lectured in Italy, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Hong Kong and France and co-directed a seminar on utopian literature at the European Forum Alpbach (Austria, 2008).