French Manners and English Bodies: Cosmopolitanism on the Caroline Stage

Thursday, Feb. 16, 2006 @ 7:30 p.m.
Bucknell Hall

Jean E. Howard
William E. Ransforth Professor of English and
Vice Provost for Diversity Initatives
Columbia University

Jean E. Howard is William E. Ransford Professor of English and Vice Provost for Diversity Initiatives at Columbia University. She is a distinguished scholar of early modern literature and recipient of numerous awards, including NEH, Mellon, Folger Library and the Guggenheim Fellowships. Her teaching interests encompass not only early modern drama but also feminist and Marxist literary theory. Among her book publications are: Shakespeare Reproduced: The Text in History and Ideology (edited with Marion O’Connor), The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England; Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare’s Histories (edited with Phyllis Rackin), The Norton Shakespeare (co-edited); Marxist Shakespeares (edited with Scott Culter Shershow). Her articles include: “Shakespeare’s Creation of a Fit Audience for The Tempest” (the latter in a Bucknell Review volume); “Writing the History of the Present: Contextualizing Early Modern Literature”; “Other Englands: The View from the non-Shakespeare History Play”; “Foreigners and Englishman in Early Modern City Comedy”; and “Shakespeare and Genre.”