Jean Elizabeth Howard (born October 20, 1948 in Houlton, Maine) is an American professor in English studies and a

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scholar. She is George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities at

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and a former trustee of Brown University.

Life and works

Howard earned a BA at Brown University in 1970 and graduated from the

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in 1972 with a

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after she was awarded a

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. She received her PhD at

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in 1975. From 1975 she taught at Syracuse University. Among other honors, she has been the recipient of Guggenheim- (1999), Folger-, and Huntington Fellowships. In 2010 she held the Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lecture on ''Staging History; Imagining the Nation'' at

, where she is the ''George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities''. Her research interests are mainly focus on Shakespeare, early-modern poetry and drama, as well as Feminist and Marxist theory. She has also published studies on Shakespeare,

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, Heywood,

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, Marston and

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. From 1996 to 1999 she was the Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia University. From 1999 to 2000 she was the President of the ''

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''. From 2004 to 2007 she was Vice Provost for Diversity Initiatives, and from 2008 to 2011 Head of the Department of English Language and Comparative Literary Studies. She currently represents Brown University's retired professors and heads Brown University's Equal Opportunity effort. She is also a consultant at the

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and one of the senators of

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. In 2016 she received an honorary degree from Brown University.

Selected publications

* ''Shakespeare's Art of Orchestration ''(1984) * ''Shakespeare Reproduced: The Text in History and Ideology (1987) ''with Marion O'Connor * ''The Stage and Struggle in Early Modern England ''(1994) * ''Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories ''(1997) with Phyllis Rackin * ''Marxist Shakespeares ''(2000) with Scott Shershow * ''Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy 1598-1642 ''(2007) University of Pennsylvania Press * ''Shakespeare and Marx'' (2012) with Crystal Bartolovich * ''The Norton Shakespeare ''co-editor (2nd ed. 2007, 3rd ed. 2016); * ''Bedford Contextual Editions of Shakespeare ''general editor.

References

External links

Jean E. Howard Papers
- Pembroke Center Archives, Brown University {{DEFAULTSORT:Howard, Jean E. American academics of English literature 1948 births Columbia University faculty Shakespearean scholars Living people Brown University alumni