Dr. Walker received her Ph.D. in 18th century Literature at New York University.  Her research focuses on Enlightenment feminisms, women's intellectual history, self-writing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the history of the right to private judgment.  She is the author of Mary Hays (1759-1843): The Growth of a Woman's Mind (2006); The Idea of Being Free: A Mary Hays Reader (2005); "Mary Hays: An Enlightened Quest" in Women, Gender and Enlightenment (2005); "'Can Man Be Free/And Woman Be A Slave?' Teaching Eighteenth- and Nineteenth Century Women Writers in Intersecting Communities" in Teaching British Women Writers 1750-1900 (2005); and coauthor of "Gender and Genre: Women in British Romantic Literature."  Professor Walker has also edited The Feminist Controversy in England 1788-1810 and co-edited Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Her current projects are Rational Passions: British Women and Scholarship 1702-1870 (forthcoming, 2008), "Regendering History: Women's Life-writing as Historiography 1803-1900," and a history of women intellectuals and their texts. In fall 2007 she will offer a course on "The Dialectics of Women and Enlightenment" in the Department of Political Science at The New School for Social Research. Before coming to The New School she was Director of Women's Studies at Northwestern University.