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	'''Carol Tecla Christ''' (born 1944 in ]) is the president of ]. Smith College, located in ], is a ] college and one of the ].

	In 1966, she graduated with high honors from ], the women's college at ]. She received a Ph.D. in English from ]. She is married to Paul Alpers, a scholar of Renaissance English literature.

	In 1970, Christ joined the faculty at the ] and was chair of the English department from 1985 to 1988. In 1988 she was appointed dean of humanities, mathematics, and natural sciences. She also served as provost and dean of the College of Letters and Sciences. In 1994, Christ was appointed vice chancellor, assistant manager, and provost (and later became executive vice chancellor) at Berkeley. She was the highest-ranking female administrator at Berkeley until she returned to full-time teaching in 2000 .

	She became Smith's 10th president in 2002.<ref></ref> At Smith, Christ has led an energetic and wide-ranging strategic planning process to identify the distinctive intellectual traditions of the Smith curriculum and foster initiatives to further develop students’ essential capacities. Throughout her administrative career, Christ has maintained an active program of teaching and research. She has published two books: ''The Finer Optic: The Aesthetic of Particularity in Victorian Poetry'' and ''Victorian and Modern Poetics''. She also edited a Norton Critical Edition of ]’s '']'' and co-edited the ''Norton Anthology of English Literature and Victorian Literature'' and ''The Victorian Visual Imagination''. She is professor of English at Smith and continues to teach, offering seminars on science and literature and on the arts.

	Christ serves on the board of the ] (COFHE) and is a trustee of ].

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