Early Career
Kirschner has had an eclectic career as an academic and writer, and as a media and marketing pioneer in broadcast television, cable, satellite, and interactive media. A Whiting Fellow in the Humanities, she received her PhD in English literature from Princeton University, following her MA from the University of Virginia and BA from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She began her career as a lecturer in Victorian literature at Princeton, and has also been a freelance writer and editor at CBS, the New York Times, and Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. She was the assistant director for English programs at the Modern Language Association, and worked as an assistant to Lola Szladits, the director of the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library. She received grants from the Texas Committee for the Humanities for a study on PhDs in business and from the Littauer Foundation for research on slave labor camps.
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