Marjorie Garber
Marjorie Garber (born June 11, 1944) is an American professor at Harvard University and the author of a wide variety of books, most notably ones about William Shakespeare and aspects of popular culture including sexuality.
Also recorded as Marjorie B. Garber
Marjorie Garber
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- 1944
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- literary scholar · university teacher · writer
- Fields
- English-language literature · American literature
- Education
- Yale University · Swarthmore College
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Languages
- English
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Garber wrote Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety, a theoretical work on transvestitism's contribution to culture. Other works include Sex and Real Estate: Why We Love Houses, Academic Instincts, Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life, Shakespeare After All, and Dog Love. Her book Shakespeare After All (Pantheon, 2004) was chosen one of Newsweek′s ten best nonfiction books of the year, and was awarded the 2005 Christian Gauss Book Award from Phi Beta Kappa. She was educated at Swarthmore College (B.A., 1966; L.H.D., 2004 [honorary]) and Yale University (1969), writing her PhD on dreams in Shakespeare. Elizabeth Winkler interviewed Garber in Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies, where Garber described her interest in the characters and reception of the works of William Shakespeare, but distanced herself from colleagues who produced fanciful biographies of the man.
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- 1.Smith, Dinitia. A Scholar of the Outré Returns to Shakespearean Basics. New York Times. January 11, 2005.
- 2.NY Times Dec 30th 2000, Dinitia Smith What, No Trespassing? But That's Her Speciality: An Expert on Shakespeare Defies Boundaries & writes about Cross Dressing, Dogs, & Real Estate.
- 3.Winkler, Elizabeth. Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies. Simon & Schuster. 331. May 2023. 9781982171261.
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- Routledge. Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety. 1991. 978-0-415-90072-0.
- Routledge. Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life. 2000. 978-0-415-92661-4.
- Simon & Schuster. Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life. 1995. 978-0-684-80308-1.
- Simon & Schuster. Dog Love. 1996. 978-0-684-81871-9.
- Routledge. Symptoms of Culture. 1998. 978-0-415-91859-6.
- Pantheon. Sex and Real Estate: Why We Love Houses. 2000. 978-0-375-42054-2.
- Princeton University Press. Academic Instincts. 2001. 978-0-691-04970-0.
- Routledge. Quotation Marks. 2002. 978-0-415-93746-7.
- University of Washington Press. A Manifesto for Literary Study. 2003. 978-0-295-98344-8.
- Pantheon Books. Shakespeare After All. 2004. 978-0-375-42190-7.
- Routledge. Profiling Shakespeare. 2008. 978-0-415-96446-3.
- Princeton University Press. Patronizing the Arts. 2008. 978-0-691-12480-3.
- Pantheon Books. Shakespeare and Modern Culture. 2008. 978-0-307-37767-8.
- Shakespeare's Ghost Writers: Literature as Uncanny Causality. Methuen Publishing. 2010.
- Pantheon Books. The Use and Abuse of Literature. 2011. 978-0-375-42434-2.
- Garber, Marjorie. Lost allusions : the changing codes of P.D. James. Clues : a journal of detection. 44. 1. 58–68. Spring 2026.
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