Marjorie Garber
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Marjorie Garber (born June 11, 1944) is an American professor at Harvard University[1] and the author of a wide variety of books, most notably ones about William Shakespeare and aspects of popular culture including sexuality.
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: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life, Shakespeare After All, and Dog Love.
Her book Shakespeare After All (Pantheon, 2004) was chosen one of Newsweek′s ten best nonfiction books of the year, and was awarded the 2005 Christian Gauss Book Award from Phi Beta Kappa.
She was educated at Swarthmore College (B.A., 1966; L.H.D., 2004 [honorary]) and Yale University (1969), writing her PhD on dreams in Shakespeare.[2]
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 William Shakespeare, but distanced herself from colleagues who produced fanciful biographies of the man.[3]
Selected bibliography
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- Shakespeare's Ghost Writers: Literature as Uncanny Causality. Methuen Publishing. 2010. Template:Isbn
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References
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External links
- Marjorie Garber's home page
- Interview with Charlie Rose about Vice Versa
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- 1944 births
- Living people
- American relationships and sexuality writers
- 20th-century American women writers
- 20th-century American non-fiction writers
- American social sciences writers
- Bisexual women writers
- Harvard University faculty
- Shakespearean scholars
- Swarthmore College alumni
- Yale University alumni
- 21st-century American women writers
- American women non-fiction writers
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- Members of the American Philosophical Society
- American bisexual writers