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BiographyJewel Spears Brooker is Professor of Literature at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida where she has received awards for teaching, scholarship, and campus leadership. She has held visiting research or teaching appointments at Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Cambridge, and Doshisha (Kyoto) Universities. Dr. Brooker has written or edited eight books, including Approaches to Teaching Eliot's Poetry and Plays (1988), Reading The Waste Land: Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation (1990—coauthor, Joseph Bentley), The Placing of T. S. Eliot (1991), Mastery and Escape: T. S. Eliot and the Dialectic of Modernism (1994), Conversations with Denise Levertov (1998), T. S. Eliot and Our Turning World (2000), and most recently, T. S. Eliot: The Contemporary Reviews (2004). She is the co-editor of T. S. Eliot's Complete Prose (vols. 1, 2011; vol. 8) and has published scores of essays on modern writers. Professor Brooker has received numerous awards and has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright Foundation, Knight Foundation, and Pew Charitable Trust and has lectured widely in America, Europe, and Asia. She has served as president of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association and other professional societies, and recently completed a six-year term as a member of the National Humanities Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For curriculum vitae, click here Education / Honors / Awards / Biographical listings Leadership in the Humanities / Conference and Programs organized Bibliography: Books / Essays in books, journals, magazines / Reviews Lectures |
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