Gail Kern Paster |
Gail Paster is director of Folger Shakespeare Library. She is also editor of Shakespeare Quarterly, the leading scholarly journal devoted to Shakespeare, published by Folger Shakespeare Library in association with The George Washington University, where she was a professor of English. Paster taught at George Washington from 1974 to 2002.
She has won many national fellowships and awards, including fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, National Endowment from the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation.
She is the author of numerous scholarly articles and three books— Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage (2004), The Idea of the City in the Age of Shakespeare (1986), and The Body Embarrassed: Drama and the Disciplines of Shame in Early Modern England (1993)—as well as the co-editor of the Bedford Books “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Texts and Contexts (1998), editor of Thomas Middleton’s 1607 comedy, Michaelmas Term (2000), and co-editor (with Mary Floyd-Wilson and Katherine A. Rowe) of Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays on Emotion (2004).
Paster has been a trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America and served as its president in 2003.
She earned a B.A. from Smith College and and a Ph.D. from Yale University.
