"Marsha eventually brought her salon to campus and founded the Comparative Literature Women's Caucus, an activist collective that established the first women's literature classes in Comparative Literature, conceived and taught by graduate student women. Caucus members helped produce the first major translation anthologies of women's world-wide poetry, encouraged women to write feminist dissertations on women authors, and researched discrimination against women in the department."
"Marsha was my first friend in the Comp Lit Department, and we stayed close for many years. She was a bravely outspoken critic of the patriarchy and a model for how women could work together with generosity and kindness instead of with the competitiveness fostered by academia and the culture at large. Thank you for all you've given us, Marsha."
Marsha Hudson, Ph.D., founded a feminist literary salon in 1969 as a graduate student in Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley to discuss women's literature largely ignored in classrooms. She brought the salon to campus and founded the Comparative Literature Women's Caucus, which established the first women's literature classes in Comparative Literature conceived and taught by graduate student women. Caucus members produced major translation anthologies of women's world-wide poetry, encouraged feminist dissertations on women authors, and researched departmental discrimination against women. This activism helped create a women's studies major and program at Cal, which evolved into an interdisciplinary Gender and Women's Studies department. Colleagues remembered her as an outspoken critic of patriarchy and a generous, collaborative leader.
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