Prof Shirley N Garner

Contact Me

sngarner@umn.edu

Affiliations

• English
• Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies

Links

• Early Modern Faculty Research Group

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

• Ph.D.: English, Stanford University, 1972.

Specialties

• Renaissance literature
• Shakespeare
• feminist studies in literature
• feminist psychoanalytic literary theory and criticism
• autobiography

Courses Taught

• 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
• EngL 3242 - 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

Research & Professional Activities

Professional Activities

• Chair, Department of English, University of Minnesota:
• Loft Literary Center, Board Member:
• NEH Panel on long-term editing projects: 2000

Publications

• Is Feminism Dead? Theory in Practice 200. Garner, Shirley, New York: New York University Press, Author, 2000.
• Seeing Together: Friendship Between the Sexes in English Writing: Garner, Shirley, University of Virginia, Mill to Woolf, 21 , 1999.
• Antifeminism in the Academy. Garner, Shirley, New York and London: Routledge, Author, 1996.
• "Shakespeare in My Time and Place." Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender. Garner, Shirley, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, Co-Editor, 1996.
• Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender. Garner, Shirley, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, Author, 1996.
• "Transforming Antifeminist Culture in the Academy." Antifeminism in the Academy. Garner, Shirley, Routledge, Co-Editor, 1995.
• Essential Readings in Theory, Reinterpretation, and Application. Garner, Shirley, Boulder, San Francisco, Oxford: Westview Press, Author, 1995.
• Breaking Silence: The Woman Warrior." The Intimate Critique: Autobiographical Literary Criticism.: Garner, Shirley, Duke University Press, 1993.
• Interpreting Women's Lives: Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives. Garner, Shirley, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, Author, 1989.
• The (M)Other Tongue: Essays in Feminist Psychoanalytic Interpretation. Garner, Shirley, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, Author, 1985.

Awards

• Mullen/Spector/Truax Women’s Leadership Award, 2007
• Academy of Distinguished Teachers, University of Minnesota, 1999
• President's Award for Outstanding Service, University of Minnesota, 1999
• Morse Amoco/Alumni Teaching Award, University of Minnesota, 1982