Gardiner, Judith Kegan

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GARDINER, Judith Kegan

GARDINER, Judith Kegan. American, b. 1941. Genres: Literary criticism and history, Women's studies and issues. Career: Fisk University, Nashville, TN, assistant professor, 1968-69; University of Illinois at Chicago, assistant professor, 1969-76, associate professor, 1976-88, professor of English and women's studies, 1988-, acting director of Women's Studies Program, 1978-80, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1991, interim director of Center for Research on Women and Gender, 2002-; writer and editor. Radcliffe Institute, visiting research scholar, 1972-73; Stanford University Center for Research on Women, visiting scholar, 1983; Newberry Library, research associate, 1986-87; Rockefeller residency fellowship, Bellagio, Italy, 1996. Publications: Craftsmanship in Context: The Development of Ben Jonson's Poetry, 1975; Rhys, Stead, Lessing, and the Politics of Empathy, 1989. EDITOR: Provoking Agents, 1995; Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory, 2002. Contributor to books and scholarly journals. Address: Department of English, m/c 162, University of Illinois at Chicago, 601 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60607-7120, U.S.A. Online address: Gardiner@uic.edu

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