Rhoda Flaxman, Founding Director

Rhoda Flaxman taught British and American Literature, first at the high school level, and then at Brown University(1987-2007), where she also directed Brown’s writing-across-the curriculum program and published on Victorian literature. She presently serves as founding Director of The Open University of Wellfleet, which sponsors lifelong learning courses on Cape Cod. She teaches upper-level seminars in literature both on the Cape and at the Providence Athenaeum and recently led her tenth class on Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. She is an avid walker, swimmer, reader and participates actively in the lives of her children and eleven grand-children.