O'Connor, Margaret Anne

Margaret Anne O'Connor taught the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's first course on Women in Literature in the spring of 1972. She later regularly taught classes in Women in American Literature, American Expatriate Women Writers, and Southern Women Writers at the undergraduate level as Women's Studies courses cross-listed with both English and American Studies. At the graduate level, she taught Reconstructing American Literature in the mid-1980s. She was a member of the Faculty Council's Status of Women Committee and Women's Studies Advisory Board; University Women for Affirmative Action; the Association for Women Faculty; and the Women's Forum, an advisory board to the Association of Women Students. Outside the University, she was active in professional women's organizations; in the South Atlantic Modern Language Association; the American Association of University Professors, for which she chaired Committee W for several years in the 1970s; and the Modern Language Association.

Margaret Anne O'Connor taught the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's first course on Women in Literature in the spring of 1972 and helped form the Women's Studies curriculum. Throughout her career she continued to teach courses relating to women at both the undergraduate and graduate level.