Harvard author speaks at series honoring former English professor

Garber will present "Bartlett's Familiar Shakespeare: The Pleasure and Pitfalls of Quotation" at 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 9 in Stewart Center's Fowler Hall.

Garber is the William R. Kenan Jr. professor of English and American literature and language at Harvard University. She also is chair of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies and the director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.

She is the author of 12 books, including "Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety," "Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life," "Symptoms of Culture," "Quotation Marks," "Sex and Real Estate: Why We Love Houses" and "Dog Love."

Her book "Shakespeare After All" was chosen by Newsweek as one of the five best non-fiction books of 2004 and awarded the 2005 Christian Gauss Book Award from the Phi Beta Kappa Society.

Garber is the ninth Distinguished Woodman Lecturer in the series, which started in 1997 to honor Leonora Woodman, who played a central role in the development of the Purdue rhetoric and composition graduate program. Woodman, who died in 1991 after 15 years at Purdue, was nationally known for her publishing and teaching in American literature.

The Department of English is housed in the College of Liberal Arts.

Writer: Amy Patterson Neubert, (765) 494-9723, apatterson@purdue.edu

Source: John Duvall, professor of English, (765) 494-3760, jduvall@purdue.edu

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