Dr. Jean E. Howard
George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities and Chair of the Department of English and Comparative Literature
Columbia University

Keynote Luncheon
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15,
beginning at noon, in Regency BC, Sheraton

Title: "Authentic Shakespeare: Teaching the Real Thing.”

Professor Howard began teaching at Syracuse in 1975, where she received the first University-wide Wasserstrom Prize for excellence as teacher and mentor of graduate students; she has also received Guggenheim, NEH, Mellon, Folger and Newberry Library fellowships. In 2003-04 she was the Avery Distinguished Fellow at the Huntington Library in Pasadena, California. Her teaching interests include Shakespeare, Tudor and Stuart drama, Early Modern poetry, modern drama, feminist and Marxist theory, and the history of feminism. Prof. Howard is on the editorial board of Shakespeare Studies and Renaissance Drama. She has published essays on Shakespeare, Pope, Ford, Heywood, Dekker, Marston, and Jonson, as well as on aspects of contemporary critical theory including new historicism, Marxism, and issues in feminism. Her books include Shakespeare's Art of Orchestration (1984); Shakespeare Reproduced: The Text in History and Ideology, edited with Marion O'Connor (1987); The Stage and Struggle in Early Modern England (1994); with Phyllis Rackin, Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories (1997); Marxist Shakespeares, edited with Scott Shershow (2000); and four generically organized Companions to Shakespeare, edited with Richard Dutton (2001). She is co-editor of The Norton Shakespeare (1997; 2nd ed., 2007) and General Editor of the Bedford Contextual Editions of Shakespeare. Her most recent book, entitled Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy 1598-1642 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007) won the Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Work in Theater History for 2008. She is currently working on a book on the contemporary feminist dramatist Caryl Churchill and another book on the development of Renaissance tragedy. From 1996 to 1999 Professor Howard directed the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and in 1999-2000 she was as President of the Shakespeare Association of America. From 2004 to 2007, Professor Howard served as Columbia's first Vice Provost for Diversity Initiatives. She is currently chair of the Department of English and Comparative Literature.

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