Marjorie Garber
Marjorie B. Garber (born June 11, 1944) is an American Shakespeare scholar and professor at Harvard University .
life and work
Garber studied at Swarthmore College and Yale University . She was director of the "Humanities Center" at Harvard, most recently headed the department for "Visual and Environmental Studies" and was director of the "Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts". She continues to teach in the university's English department and teach seminars on Shakespeare and modern culture. Her study Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety is considered a fundamental piece of work on transvestism . Her book Shakespeare After All was selected by Newsweek as one of the ten best books and in 2005 received the Christian Gauss Book Award from Phi Beta Kappa .
In 2012 she was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society .
Selected publications
- The Use and Abuse of Literature . Pantheon Books , 2011, ISBN 978-0-375-42434-2 .
- Shakespeare and Modern Culture . Pantheon Books , 2008, ISBN 978-0-307-37767-8 .
- Patronizing the Arts . Princeton University Press , 2008, ISBN 978-0-691-12480-3 .
- Profiling Shakespeare . Routledge , 2008, ISBN 978-0-415-96446-3 .
- Shakespeare After All . Pantheon Books, 2004, ISBN 978-0-375-42190-7 .
- A Manifesto for Literary Study . University of Washington Press , 2004, ISBN 978-0-295-98344-8 .
- Quotation Marks . Routledge, 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-93746-7 .
- Academic Instincts . Princeton University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-691-04970-0 .
- Sex and Real Estate: Why We Love Houses . Pantheon, 2000, ISBN 978-0-375-42054-2 .
- Symptoms of Culture . Routledge, 1998, ISBN 978-0-415-91859-6 .
- Dog love . Simon & Schuster , 1996, ISBN 978-0-684-81871-9 .
- Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life . Simon & Schuster, 1995, ISBN 978-0-684-80308-1 .
- Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life . Routledge, 2000, ISBN 978-0-415-92661-4 .
- Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety . Routledge, 1991, ISBN 978-0-415-90072-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dinitia Smith: A Scholar of the Outré Returns to Shakespearean Basics. In: New York Times, January 11, 2005. Retrieved January 31, 2015.
- ↑ Member History: Marjorie Garber. American Philosophical Society, accessed August 16, 2018 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Garber, Marjorie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Garber, Marjorie B. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American English scholar and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1944 |