Catherine
Bryson Professor: Jean Howard
Dr.
Jean Howard has been named to the Catherine
Bryson Professorship, SAS Dean Samuel H.
Preston has announced. Dr. Howard received
her B.A. from Brown University in 1970,
her M.Phil. from the University of London
in 1972, and her Ph.D. from Yale University
in 1975. She began her career at Syracuse
University in 1975, where she received the
first university-wide Wasserstrom Prize
for excellence as a teacher and mentor of
graduate students. A prestigious scholar,
she has also received Guggenheim, National
Endowment for the Humanities, Mellon, Folger,
and Newberry Library fellowships. Before
joining Penn's faculty this fall, Dr. Howard
was a professor of English at Columbia University.
She served as director of the Institute
for Research on Women and Gender and president
of the Shakespeare Association of America.
Her teaching interests include Shakespeare,
Tudor, and Stuart drama; early modern poetry;
modern drama; feminist and Marxist theory;
and the history of feminism.
She
has published five books, including: Shakespeare's
Art of Orchestration: Stage Technique and
Audience Response; The Stage and Social
Struggle in Early Modern England; and,
with Dr. Phyllis Rackin of the Penn faculty,
Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account
of Shakespeare's English Histories. She
is the co-editor of The Norton Shakespeare and
the general editor of the Bedford Contextual
Editions of Shakespeare.
The
Catherine Bryson Professorship was established
by Natalie I. Koether, Esq., CW'61, L'65,
a generous supporter of the School of Arts
and Sciences. As a long-standing University
Charter Trustee, founding member of the
Trustees' Council of Penn Women, and chair emerita of
the SAS Board of Overseers, Mrs. Koether
is actively involved as a volunteer leader
at Penn. She established this chair in 1989
to honor her high school English teacher,
Catherine Bryson, ED'22, G'47. Miss Bryson
was committed to the Aristotelian precept
that knowledge is sufficient justification
for learning. Mrs. Koether is counsel to
the law firm of Rosenman and Colin and president
of Pure World, Inc., one of the world's
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