Campbell, Felicia, 1931-

Felicia Florine Campbell is an English professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). As of 2018, she is the longest serving faculty member at UNLV.

Campbell was born in 1931 in Cuba City, Wisconsin. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English in 1954 and 1957 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and earned her PhD at United States International University in San Diego, California in 1973. She began teaching at UNLV in 1962 when the school was known as the Southern Regional Division of the University of Nevada.

Campbell founded the Las Vegas, Nevada chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW), and also founded the Far West Popular Culture and American Culture Associations in 1989. She was involved in legal disputes during the 1970s regarding salary differences between male and female professors at UNLV. She is responsible for bringing Asian and African American literature classes into the English department at UNLV.

Source:

Przybys, John. “UNLV’s Longest-Serving Faculty Member Talks About Her Life In, Out of Classroom.” Las Vegas Review-Journal, November 8, 2016. https://www.reviewjournal.com/life/unlvs-longest-serving-faculty-member-talks-about-her-life-in-out-of-classroom/