The grammarian eminence: McGill, the Dickinson honors work, the Macdonald Chair

texture · UNDATED (~her McGill and graduate years, B.S. era)

• When: UNDATED (undergraduate at McGill; then the Royal Victoria College chair)
• What: Avril did her undergraduate Honors work at McGill "on the use of hyphens, dashes, and colons in E. Dickinson," and became "the only female academic ever to hold the Macdonald Chair in Prescriptive Usage at the Royal Victoria College of McGill University." Prescriptive grammar becomes her lifelong vocation and identity (see events 12, 21). Her full name and stature: "Avril Mondragon Tavis Incandenza, Ed.D., Ph.D.," 197 cm tall in flats.