Editing Joanna Russ (section)

==Background==
Joanna Russ was born in [[The Bronx]], New York City,{{sfnp|Russ|1989|p=236}} to Evarett I. and Bertha (née Zinner) Russ, both teachers. Her family was Jewish.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/uw-professor-joanna-russ-with-ursula-k-le-guin-and-others-brought-feminist-bent-to-science-fiction/ |title=UW professor Joanna Russ, with Ursula K. Le Guin and others, brought feminist bent to science fiction |date=October 18, 2019 |publisher=The Seattle Times |access-date=2019-10-22}}</ref> She began creating works of fiction at a very early age. Over the following years she filled countless notebooks with stories, poems, comics and illustrations, often hand-binding the material with thread.<ref>{{cite web|title=PCL MS-7: Joanna Russ Collection|url=http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/pclms7.html|work=Browne Popular Culture Library|access-date=March 20, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110113050534/http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/pclms7.html|archive-date=January 13, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

As a senior at [[William Howard Taft High School (New York City)|William Howard Taft High School]], Russ was selected as one of the top ten [[Intel Science Talent Search|Westinghouse Science Talent Search]] winners.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nndb.com/people/553/000029466/ |title=Joanna Russ |publisher=NNDB |access-date=March 15, 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://student.societyforscience.org/science-talent-search-1953 |title=Science Talent Search 1953 |publisher=Society for Science & the Public |access-date=September 28, 2015 |archive-date=June 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190624035343/https://student.societyforscience.org/science-talent-search-1953 |url-status=dead }}</ref> She graduated from [[Cornell University]], where she studied with [[Vladimir Nabokov]],{{sfnp|Delany|2005|p=vi}} in 1957, and received her [[Master of Fine Arts|MFA]] from the Yale Drama School in 1960. She was briefly married to Albert Amateau. 

Russ taught at [[Queensborough Community College]] from 1966 to 1967, at Cornell from 1967 to 1972, [[Binghamton University|SUNY Binghamton]], from 1972 to 1975, and at the [[University of Colorado Boulder|University of Colorado, Boulder]], from 1975 to 1977.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Russ, Joanna, 1937-2011 - Social Networks and Archival Context|url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6bk3pc4|access-date=2021-12-08|website=snaccooperative.org}}</ref> In 1977 she started teaching at the [[University of Washington]].<ref name="nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu">{{cite web|title=Guide to the Joanna Russ Papers, 1968–1989|url=http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv52000|access-date=March 20, 2011|work=Northwest Digital Archives}}</ref> She became a full professor in 1984 and retired in 1991.<ref>{{Cite web|title=In Memoriam - Joanna Russ: English Matters—Spring 2012|url=https://depts.washington.edu/engl/newsletter/2012-2/russ.php|access-date=2021-12-08|website=depts.washington.edu}}</ref> Russ was awarded a [[National Endowment for the Humanities]] fellowship in 1974-1975.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Priest |first=Christopher |date=2011-05-12 |title=Joanna Russ obituary |url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/may/12/joanna-russ-obituary |access-date=2024-09-10 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}</ref>