College
Deren began college at Syracuse University, where she became active in the Trotskyist Young People's Socialist League (1907). Through the YPSL she met Gregory Bardacke, whom she married at the age of eighteen. After his graduation in 1935, she moved to New York City. She and her husband became active in various socialist causes in New York City. She graduated from New York University with a bachelor's degree in literature and separated from Bardacke. The divorce was finalized in 1939. She attended the New School for Social Research and received a master’s degree in English literature at Smith College. Her master's thesis was titled "The Influence of the French Symbolist School on Anglo-American Poetry" (1939).
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