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• 1 media/image68.jpg 2021-08-26T11:52:23-07:00 1947 - Jesse Rehder (1908-1967) Begins Teaching Creative Writing 4 Jessie Rehder begins a 20-year career teaching creative writing. Renowned for encouraging her students, she published their work in annual volumes titled The Young Writer at Chapel Hill (1962-1967). Her textbook, The Young Writer at Work (1962), was widely acclaimed. She was the first White woman to be granted tenure and the rank of associate professor in the department. plain 2021-09-02T07:40:17-07:00 Jessie Rehder begins a 20-year career teaching creative writing. Although not the first professor to teach creative writing at UNC, many faculty credit her with the creative writing program; as Bland Simpson says, “We date Carolina's & ECL's Creative Writing Program to her hire and starting year.” Renowned for encouraging her students, she published their work in annual volumes titled The Young Writer at Chapel Hill (1962-1967). Her textbook, The Young Writer at Work (1962), was widely acclaimed. She was the first White woman to be granted tenure and the rank of associate professor in the department. Professor Rehder would be joined by Lucia Morgan in 1958. It wasn’t until the 1960s and 1970s that the department would begin to hire White women in larger numbers, and it was not until Dr. Trudier Harris and Dr. Thadius Davis were hired in 1979 that the department included Black female professors. At Rehder’s death in 1967, the directorship of the creative writing program passed to Professor Max Steele.
  
  See a list of all female faculty members in the Department of English and Comparative Literature’s history here
  
  
  
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  Naumoff, Lawrence.  “Rehder, Jessie Clifford.”  Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, edited by William S. Powell.  U of North Carolina P, 1994. Rpt. in NCPedia, https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/rehder-jessie-clifford.
  
  Simpson, Bland. Message to the editor. June 9, 2021. Email.