Cynthia Griffin Wolff, a noted scholar of American literature, passed away on July 25. She was 87.Wolff joined the humanities faculty at MIT in 1980 and was named the Class of 1922 Professor of Humanities in 1985. She taught in the Literature Section, and later moved to the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies. Her expertise was in the exploration of 19th and 20th century female American writers. She retired from MIT in 2003.Wolff was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, on Aug. 20, 1934. She was a graduate of Radcliffe…
