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Elaine Showalter is Professor of English at
Princeton University. She has been a teacher of English
and American Literature for 40 years and has taught
high school students, undergraduates, graduate students,
faculty and other adults in the United States, Canada,
Britain and Europe.
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She has also directed a teaching seminar
for graduate students. During 1998 she was President
of the Modern Language Association of America - the
highest (elected) honour of scholars in literary studies
in the US. |
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Aside from her academic achievements, Professor
Showalter is a celebrated freelance journalist,
and has written for publications as diverse
as People, Vogue, The New Statesman, The
Guardian, and The London Review of Books.
She frequently appears on radio and television
shows in the UK,
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including Late
Review, Start the Week, Front Row and Nightwaves,
and has commented on subjects ranging from new
fiction to films, television, and the World Cup. |
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Her previous publications include:
A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists
from Brontë to Lessing (1982), The Female
Malady: Women, Madness and Society 1830-1980 (1987),
Sexual Anarchy (1991), Sister's Choice: Tradition
and Change in American Women's Writing (1991) and
Inventing Herself (2001). |
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