 Shulman has taught writing and women's literature widely in the U.S., including at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (Honolulu), where she held the Citizens Chair in 1991-2, New York University, New School University, the University of Southern Maine, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Yale.She received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Case Western Reserve University in 2001.In the early 1960s Shulman was active in the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).