Ellen Rosser Smith served on the faculty at California State University, Sacramento in the English Department, College of Arts and Letters. She was involved in developing the Women's Studies Program at California State university, Sacramento. She also was active in the Women's Caucus, the United Professors of California, and both California State University, Sacramento and California State University Affirmative Action Committees.

Ellen Rosser Smith was born in 1936. She received her B.A. and her M.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin. She received her PH D from the University of Michigan. Her thesis topic was titled Yeat's Cultural Touchstone: the period from Dante to Shakespeare. She was an English professor at California State University, Sacramento and was also involved in the women's movement. She published volumes of collected poetry, printing the material of her own press. Random Collective, printed in 1974 and Hard Pressed, published in 1975 are two such collections. She called her press Ellen's Old Alchemical Press.

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