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October 8, 2007, 4:00 p.m.
Stanford Humanities Center

Marjorie Garber
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English
Harvard University

After the Humanities

About the Speaker

MARJORIE GARBER is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English and American Literature and Language and of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University, where she is Chair of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies and Director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.

Garber has published twelve books (two more are forthcoming this year), and edited seven collections of essays. A specialist on Shakespeare, Garber has written four widely admired books on the playwright. Her most recent, Shakespeare After All (Pantheon, 2004), received the 2005 Christian Gauss Book Award from Phi Beta Kappa.

With interests ranging from animal studies to literary theory, Garber has published widely in cultural criticism and theory as well as educational theory and university culture. Her most recent book is Patronizing the Arts (forthcoming, Princeton University Press, 2008).

Program

Monday, October 8, 4:00 p.m.

Lecture
Levinthal Hall
Stanford Humanities Center
424 Santa Teresa Street
Stanford University

Co-sponsors: School of Humanities and Sciences, the Department of English, and the Department of Art and Art History

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