Hope H. Glidden

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Hope H. Glidden, Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Syracuse University, passed away in the early morning hours of Sunday, September 17, 2017 at Crouse Hospital.
Prof. Glidden was born in New York City on February 22, 1945. She developed a deep love for the French language at an early age and later received her BA from Lawrence University and her MA and PhD from Columbia University in French literature. She began her academic career at Wesleyan University as an assistant professor, where she taught for eight years, and later moved to Tulane University, where she spent the bulk of her career. She served as the Kathryn B. Gore Professor of French at Tulane until joining Syracuse University in 2010.
Hope was an active member of several international organizations, including the Renaissance Society of America, the Sixteenth Century Society, and the Modern Languages Association. She was also a dedicated member of the Syracuse University Medieval and Renaissance Studies group. Among the many honors she received was the Chevalière de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques (2001), from the French Ministry of Culture, and the Outstanding Teacher of the Year award, conferred by Tulane University’s Newcomb College Mortar Board (1995). She was the author of two books and more than eighty papers.
She was an enthusiastic and devoted scholar of French culture and literature, specializing in the works of Rabelais and Montaigne. She frequently visited her beloved France and owned an apartment in Paris. She was dedicated to her students and worked diligently to support their careers. She is remembered with great love and admiration by her friends and colleagues in French Renaissance Literature, both in the US and in Europe, and her memory is cherished by her dear friend and long-time partner, Laura J. Steinberg.
Memorial services will be held at noon on Sunday, September 24th at Sisskind Funeral Chapel 3175 E. Genesee Street in Syracuse NY. In lieu of flowers, please send gifts in Hope’s name to Beaver Lake Nature Center, Baldwinsville NY for the Sensory Garden Fund (beaverlakenaturecenter.org) www.sisskindfuneralservice.com