262 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine HEALTH AND WELLNESS ELLIE RAGLAND, PHD IN MEMORIAM PROFESSOR EMERITUS University of Missouri Columbia, MO From a young age, the late Dr. Ellie Ragland was a dedicated student with a natural aptitude for language and literature. Raised by a minister father and a writer mother, she inherited a rich legacy of intellectualism and creativity that includes her ancestor, author and speaker Harriet Beecher Stowe. Throughout her academic journey, she maintained a pattern of excellence and demonstrated remarkable musical talent. A gifted pianist, she was considered for admission to The Juilliard School before deciding to pursue a career in academia and psychoanalysis. Dr. Ragland attended Michigan State University, graduating magna cum laude in 1963 with dual BA degrees in English and French language, literature, comparative literature and Italian. After graduating, she attended the University of Wisconsin and Michigan State University’s joint summer program at L’École Française in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, earning a diploma in French language. She continued to distinguish herself in her graduate studies at the University of Michigan, which awarded her an MA in French language and literature in 1967 and a PhD in romance languages and literature in 1972. As a doctoral candidate, Dr. Ragland began teaching at the University of Illinois Chicago, beginning as a French instructor and rising to become an associate professor. She remained with the school until 1986 when she moved to the University of Florida, where she served as a professor of English until 1994. After leaving the University of Florida, she taught for a year in the department of psychoanalysis at the University of Paris, returning to the United States in 1989 to join the faculty at the University of Missouri. She served the university as an English professor until her retirement in 2015, when she was granted professor emeritus status. In 1970, Dr. Ragland, then a professor of French literature at the University of Illinois Chicago, was introduced to the works of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan by a colleague. Intrigued, her interest in psychology and psychoanalysis grew, and by 1972, she had dedicated much of her research to Lacanian analysis. Her seminal work, “Jacques Lacan and
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