Home > Faculty : Shirley N Garner
Specialties
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Renaissance literature
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Shakespeare
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feminist studies in literature
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feminist psychoanalytic literary theory and criticism
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autobiography
Educational Background
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Ph.D.: English, Stanford University, 1972.
Publications
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Is Feminism Dead? Theory in Practice 200. Garner, Shirley Nelson, New York: New York University Press, Author, 2000.
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Seeing Together: Friendship Between the Sexes in English Writing: Garner, Shirley Nelson, University of Virginia, Mill to Woolf, 21 , 1999.
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Antifeminism in the Academy. Garner, Shirley Nelson, New York and London: Routledge, Author, 1996.
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"Shakespeare in My Time and Place." Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender. Garner, Shirley Nelson, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, Co-Editor, 1996.
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Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender. Garner, Shirley Nelson, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, Author, 1996.
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"Transforming Antifeminist Culture in the Academy." Antifeminism in the Academy. Garner, Shirley Nelson, Routledge, Co-Editor, 1995.
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Essential Readings in Theory, Reinterpretation, and Application. Garner, Shirley Nelson, Boulder, San Francisco, Oxford: Westview Press, Author, 1995.
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Breaking Silence: The Woman Warrior." The Intimate Critique: Autobiographical Literary Criticism.: Garner, Shirley Nelson, Duke University Press, 1993.
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Interpreting Women's Lives: Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives. Garner, Shirley Nelson, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, Author, 1989.
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The (M)Other Tongue: Essays in Feminist Psychoanalytic Interpretation. Garner, Shirley Nelson, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, Author, 1985.
Professional Activities
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Chair, Department of English, University of Minnesota
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Loft Literary Center, Board Member
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NEH Panel on long-term editing projects: 2000
Awards
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Mullen/Spector/Truax Women’s Leadership Award, 2007
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Academy of Distinguished Teachers, University of Minnesota, 1999
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President's Award for Outstanding Service, University of Minnesota, 1999
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Morse Amoco/Alumni Teaching Award, University of Minnesota, 1982
Courses Taught
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Reading Shakespeare
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Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare
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Love and Death in Shakespeare
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Shakespeare and Marlowe
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Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender
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Romantic Love in English and American Literature
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Writing and Publishing for English Graduate Students
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EngL 3242 - Shakespeare
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Women in Shakespeare
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British and American Women Writers: Silence and Breaking Silence as a Feminist and Literary Tradition
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Politics in Sixteenth-Century English Literature
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Autobiographies of Women
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Mothers and Daughters in English and American Literature
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Tudor and Elizabethan Poetry
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