Her intellectual vigor and originality are in evidence on every page of Shakespeare After All,” and the San Jose Mercury News called the book “The best one-volume critical guide to the plays … Stimulating and informative.” According to Newsday,“Garber’s book is an enraptured ceremony of adoration … Ambitious and thorough,” and The Providence Journal calls it “A delight … Polished, thoughtful, eminently useful … The reader seeking an informed guide to each play simply cannot do better.”ĭescribed by Jonathan Culler as “consistently our shrewdest and most entertaining cultural critic,” and by Catherine R. Newsweek magazinechose Shakespeare After All as one of the five best nonfiction books of 2004, and praised itas the “indispensable introduction to an indispensable writer … Garber’s is the most exhilarating seminar room you’ll ever enter.” Tina Packer, Shakespeare & Company, says “Garber’s knowledge of Shakespeare is breathtaking. The book is an extensive study of Shakespeare’s plays, the fruits of more than twenty years of teaching large lecture classes at Harvard and Yale. Garber has written five widely admired books on the playwright, including her most recent, Shakespeare and Modern Culture (Pantheon, 2008) Profiling Shakespeare (Routledge, 2008) and Shakespeare After All (Pantheon, 2004), which received the 2005 Christian Gauss Book Award from Phi Beta Kappa. The scope of her work is both broad and deep-her topics range from animal studies to literary theory, but her work has mostly been centered on Shakespeare. Garber has published fifteen books and has edited seven collections of essays. 1969), she has taught at Yale, at Haverford, and-since 1981-at Harvard.

She is senior Trustee of the English Institute, a member of the Board of Directors of the American Council of Learned Societies, and served until recently as the President of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English and of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University, where she is also Chair of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies and Director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.

Provost’s Distinguished Women’s Lecturer for 2009-10

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