emerita

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As chair emerita, Harris will not have editorial control over the Headquarters content, according to the announcement, which raises its own questions about accountability and messaging discipline.

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026

The author, a professor emerita at Loyola University Chicago, has written not a conventional history, but, a far more subtle enterprise, a history of feeling.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

She chose choreographer Robert Battle as her successor and served as the company’s artistic director emerita until her death.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2024

Marjorie Taylor, professor emerita of psychology at the University of Oregon and an expert on imaginary friends, wasn’t sure.

From New York Times • May 17, 2024

No sooner had the "lady," as Byron was pleased to call her, played her part as decoy, than she was discharged as emerita.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley