1. History

2. Published works

3. References

History

A graduate of Los Altos High School (Los Altos, California), Professor Summit received her BA from Vassar College in 1987^[1] where she graduated with highest honors and Phi Beta Kappa.{{Citation needed|date=January 2013}} She was awarded a PhD by The Johns Hopkins University in 1995.{{Citation needed|date=January 2013}}

Summit joined the Stanford faculty in 1995 and was granted tenure in 2001.{{Citation needed|date=October 2013}} She became Dean of Undergraduate Education at San Francisco State University in 2014.^[3]

Summit's work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies and the Stanford Humanities Center. She received the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1998.{{Citation needed|date=January 2013}}

Her most recent book, Memory's Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England (2008), was awarded the Roland H. Bainton Book Prize by the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC)^[4] and the John Ben Snow Foundation Book Prize from the North American Conference on British Studies (NCBS).^[5] Her first book, Lost Property: the Woman Writer and English Literary History, 1380-1589, was published in 2000.

Professor Summit's research interests bridge the medieval and early modern periods and focus on the histories of reading, literature, and knowledge, with a special interest in literacy and the disciplines today.

Summit is the daughter of Roger K. Summit, founder of Dialog Information Services and Virginia M. Summit, author and former mayor of Los Altos Hills, CA.{{Citation needed|date=January 2013}}

Published works

• Lost Property: the Woman Writer and English Literary History, 1380–1589 (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2000) {{ISBN|0-226-78013-9}}
• "Rethinking Periodization", a special issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Duke, 2007), co-edited with David Wallace (U. Penn) ASIN B0021WUW08
• Memory's Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2008) {{ISBN|0-226-78171-2}}
• The History of British Women's Writing, 1500–1610: Vol 2 (Palgrave, 2010), co-edited with Caroline Bicks (Boston College) {{ISBN|0-230-21834-2}}
• Action versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018) {{ISBN|978-0-226-03223-8}}

References

• History of Ma'anshan
• History of Maarrat al-Nu'man
• History of Maastricht
• History of Mabalacat
• History of Mabel, Minnesota
• History of Mabson, Alabama
• History of Mabton, Washington
• History of Macapá
• History of Macclenny, Florida
• History of Macedo de Cavaleiros
• History of Macedon
• History of Macedonia (ancient kingdom)
• History of Macedonia, Iowa
• History of Macedonia, Ohio
• History of Maceió
• History of Macerata
• History of Macheng
• History of Machhali Shahar
• History of Machico, Madeira
• History of Machida, Tokyo
• History of Machilipatnam
• History of machine intelligence
• History of machine learning
• History of Mackay, Queensland
• History of Mackinac County, Michigan