Elaine Showalter

Elaine Showalter, Emeritus Professor of English at Princeton University, combines scholarly expertise in English and American literature with a passion for a wide range of cultural subjects. She has written ten books, most recently The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe: A Biography and A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx , which was awarded the Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism. Her writing has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement , People ...See more

Elaine Showalter, Emeritus Professor of English at Princeton University, combines scholarly expertise in English and American literature with a passion for a wide range of cultural subjects. She has written ten books, most recently The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe: A Biography and A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx , which was awarded the Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism. Her writing has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement , People , and Vogue . See less