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- The Buffalo News (NY)
November 10, 2010
Ann S. Haskell, Ph.D., a retired University at Buffalo English professor and freelance writer, died of ovarian cancer Oct. 22 in her Troy, Va., home. She was 81.
Dr. Haskell was a Chaucerian scholar whose books included "Essays on Chaucer's Saints" and "A Middle English Anthology." In addition to her scholarly work, she wrote op-ed columns, personal essays and articles for many publications including Smithsonian magazine, the Washington Post, Baltimore Sun and New York Times.
Born Elizabeth Ann Sullivan in Washington, D.C., she was a 1946 graduate of Washington-Lee High School in Arlington County, Va., and in 1961, while raising three children on her own, graduated from Clemson University. She received a Woodrow Wilson Graduate Fellowship and received her doctorate in English and philology cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 1964.
In 1966, Dr. Haskell began teaching at UB -- specializing in Chaucer, medieval life and literature and children's literature -- where she remained for 37 years. She was a mentor and adviser to hundreds of students and was known for her generosity and scholarship.
She maintained a home in Provence in southern France for 40 years, taught a program abroad on the culture of Provence and famously lived as a medieval woman in Provence for a period, an experience she documented in a major feature in the Smithsonian magazine.
Dr. Haskell was married to Richard Koepsell. Previous marriages to Thomas Lawson, Roger Haskell and Bolney K. Rasmussen ended in divorce.
Besides her husband of 10 years, she is survived by two sons, Constantine "Dean" Rasmussen and Mark Haskell; a daughter, Gretl Rasmussen; a stepson, David Koepsell; her mother, Elizabeth Sullivan; two brothers, Paul and Glen Sullivan; and a sister, Margaretta Smith.
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1929 - 2010 (81 years)
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