Carol Schreier Rupprecht
Keene Valley - Carol Schreier Rupprecht, 73, of Keene Valley, NY, died suddenly on Wednesday, November 14. Born June 30, 1939, in Stafford Springs, CT, to William J. and Caroline Comstock Schreier, she was a graduate of the University of Virginia, and later earned a PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University. As a professor of Comparative Literature at Kirkland College, which later merged with Hamilton College in Clinton, NY, she was an award-winning teacher, delighting her students with her courses on Dreams and Literature, Shakespeare, Dante, Early Modern European Literature, and Translation Theory. Later in her career, she sought to instill in her students an appreciation of wilderness with courses on Literature and the Adirondacks. She retired from full-time teaching in 2007.
During her career she was president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, and senior editor of its journal, Dreaming. She had written widely in the field o
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