Nancy Weyant:  

For reasons beyond my control, I attended three high schools in 4 years, graduating from Colegio San Jose in San German, Puerto Rico (my chemistry professor father took a job at Inter-American University). As a result of a summer job at Stevens Institute of Technology's library, I KNEW I wanted to be a librarian before I started college. After earning a BA in English from American University, I earned an MSLS from Wayne State University. My academic life extended into my late 50s, adding an MA in English (1992) and an MA in Art History (2000). The thesis I wrote for my MA in English became a springboard for much of my subsequent scholarship. It blended my interest in Victorian literature and my skills as a librarian to become a bibliographer on the life and works of Elizabeth Gaskell. I've published two annotated bibliographies (working on the third) and maintain a web site the principle purpose of which is to document all of the scholarship written on this Victorian author. I also serve on the editorial board of the Gaskell Journal and am the Journal's Database Liaison. My MA in Art History culminated in a thesis on a fascinating but little known American sculptor, Nancy Cox-McCormack. She modeled over 70 portrait busts and bas reliefs (including such notables as Jane Addams, Clarence Darrow, Ezra Pound, Benito Mussolini and Mahatma Gandhi), many of which were listed as "location unknown". She had one-woman shows at the Jacques Seligman Galleries in both Paris and New York, the National Gallery in ...Expand for more