Janet Gezari (born January 27, 1945, in
Newark, New Jersey
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) is a literary critic and scholar and the Lucretia L. Allyn Professor English at
Connecticut College
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. Her areas of specialization include
Charlotte and
Emily Brontë
Emily Jane Brontë (, commonly ; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English writer best known for her 1847 novel, ''Wuthering Heights''. She also co-authored a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte Brontë, Charlotte and Anne Brontà ...
,
Nabokov,
Victorian poetry and
novels
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, contemporary fiction, and
Bob Dylan
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. She was a
Berlin Prize
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The stated mission of the program is to improve the transatlan ...
Fellow at the
American Academy in Berlin
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in 2010.
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Life
Gezari graduated from
Cornell University
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''summa cum laude'' in 1966. She received a
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship
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and attended
Yale University
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, where she received an M. Phil. (1968) and a Ph.D. (1971).
Works
*''The Annotated Wuthering Heights'', edited with introduction and notes by Janet Gezari, Belknap Press (Harvard), 2014.
*,
*''Shirley'', re-edited with a new introduction, bibliography, and additional notes, Oxford University Press, 2007.
*''Emily Jane Brontë: The Complete Poems'', ed. by Janet Gezari, Penguin Press, 1992.
*''Charlotte Brontë and Defensive Conduct: The Author and the Body at Risk'', University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992,
References
External links
*http://bronteblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/interview-to-janet-gezari.html
The Weekly Standard
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Connecticut College faculty
Cornell University alumni
Yale University alumni
Living people
1945 births