Shirley Nelson Garner
Professor and Associate Dean of the Graduate School
Ph.D. English, Stanford University, 1972
330B Lind Hall
(612) 625-1826
sngarner@umn.edu
Department Affiliations
English; Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
Areas of Expertise
Renaissance literature; Shakespeare; feminist studies in literature; feminist psychoanalytic literary theory and criticism; autobiography
Selected Publications
Is Feminism Dead? Theory in Practice. Ed. The Social
Justice Group at the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies.
New York: New York University Press, 2000.
Antifeminism in the Academy. Ed. VeVe Clark,
Shirley Nelson Garner, Ketu Katrak, and Margaret Higonnet.
New York and London: Routledge, 1996.
Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender. Ed. Shirley Nelson Garner and Madelon
Sprengnether. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.
Interpreting Women's Lives: Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives. Ed. Shirley Nelson Garner with the Personal Narratives Group. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.
The (M)other Tongue: Essays in Feminist Psychoanalytic
Interpretation. Ed. Shirley Nelson Garner, Claire Kahane, and Madelon
Sprengnether. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985.
"Shakespeare in My Time and Place." Shakespearean
Tragedy and Gender. Ed. Shirley Garner and Madelon Sprengnether. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1996.
"Transforming Antifeminist Culture in the Academy." Antifeminism in the Academy. Edited by VeVe Clark, Shirley Nelson Garner, Ketu Katrak, and Margaret Higonnet. New York and London: Routledge, 1995.
Essential Readings in Theory, Reinterpretation, and Application. Ed. Nancy Tuana and Rosemarie Tong. Boulder, San Francisco, Oxford: Westview Press, 1995.
Breaking Silence: The Woman Warrior." The Intimate Critique: Autobiographical Literary Criticism. Ed. Diane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey, and Frances Murphy Zauhar. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1993. (An earlier version of this essay appeared in Hurricane Alice 1.2 (1983).
Rev. of Seeing Together: Friendship Between the Sexes in English Writing, from Mill to Woolf by Victor Luftig. Review (University of Virginia) 21 (1999).
Graduate Courses
Reading Shakespeare
Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare
Love and Death in Shakespeare
Shakespeare and Marlowe
Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender
Romantic Love in English and American Literature
Writing and Publishing for English Graduate Students
Undergraduate Courses
Shakespeare
Women in Shakespeare
British and American Women Writers: Silence and Breaking Silence as a Feminist and Literary Tradition
Politics in Sixteenth-Century English Literature
Autobiographies of Women
Mothers and Daughters in English and American Literature
Tudor and Elizabethan Poetry