Marjorie Garber (born June 11, 1944) is an American professor at

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and the author of a wide variety of books, most notably ones about

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and aspects of popular culture including

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Biography

Garber wrote ''Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety'', a theoretical work on transvestitism's contribution to culture. Other works include ''Sex and Real Estate: Why We Love Houses'', ''Academic Instincts'', ''Vice Versa:

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and the

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of Everyday Life'', ''Shakespeare After All'', and ''Dog Love''. Her book ''Shakespeare After All'' (Pantheon, 2004) was chosen one of ''

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''′s ten best nonfiction books of the year, and was awarded the 2005 Christian Gauss Book Award from

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. She was educated at

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(B.A., 1966; L.H.D., 2004 onorary and

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(1969), writing her PhD on

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in Shakespeare. Elizabeth Winkler interviewed Garber in '' Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies'', where Garber described her interest in the characters and reception of the works of

, but distanced herself from colleagues who produced fanciful biographies of the man.

Selected bibliography

* * Shakespeare's Ghost Writers: Literature as Uncanny Causality.

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. 2010. * * * * * * * * * * * * *

References

External links

Marjorie Garber's home page

Interview
with

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