ROSEMARY KEEFE (1940-2012), a major figure in feminist and lesbian-feminist writing and culture, died in May, 2012, from complications following a lung transplant. She is survived by her partner of twenty years, Doris Burkemper; her daughter, Lisa Devore; and granddaughter, Cheyenne DeVore. For the last fifteen years of her life. Rosemary used her family name. Keefe, rather than her married name, Curb.

Best known as the co-editor of the best-selling book Lesbian Nuns Breaking Silence, under the name Rosemary Curb, she was a woman of many talents, including a dramatic flair expressed in her edited collection Amazon All-Stars: Thirteen Lesbian Plays (1997). Later, in Albuquerque, her one-woman show as Mabel Dodge Luhan won a grant from the New Mexico Humanities Council. Rosemary also wrote a theater criticism blog.

She was outstanding both as an activist and as an academic. Few open lesbians have risen to department chair and dean posts as Rosemary did at several universities. The prestigious American Council on Education Fellowship she won for 19971998 (a program designed to train future college presidents) allowed her to shadow the president of the University of Maine-Farmington, Theo Kalikow. Among many other honors and awards, Rosemary won a Fulbright...