# Marjorie Garber
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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.
She wrote Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety, a ground breaking 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.
84. Candy Gunther Brown, Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University
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Candy Gunther Brown, professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University and co-founder of the Global Medical Research Institute, discusses empirical research on prayer for healing, her own miracle story, and yoga in public schools. Candy has held her current position since 2006. She …
Ep 19: Greek Mythology Retellings and Troilus and Cressida
Lovers of Greek mythology (and Shakespeare), rise up! If you thought you might like Shakespeare better if he just talked about a mythological figure for once, you’re in luck.
In Troilus and Cressida, Shakespeare covers some of the last days of the Trojan War, including some of the mythical heroes …
Marjorie Garber: The Use and Abuse of Literature
While the Bookworm and Harvard literary theorist Marjorie
Garber disagree about nearly everything, theirs is one of the most diverting literary debates you'll likely hear.
113. Jennifer Gibbs, Writer and Performer
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Jennifer Gibbs shares her journey as a woman and artist who worked in the entertainment field and later became a mother. She enrolled in a PhD program at NYU in comparative literature, focusing on performance and the embodiment of the female and feminine. She was cast in various off Br…
Ep 35: The Taming of the Shrew, Context and Confusion
Our long-awaited Shrew series has begun! And I have discovered that I committed myself to doing three episodes surrounding a play that maybe I don’t like?
But regardless of whether I’m going to banish Petruchio to my rejected list, there are still interesting things to talk about concerning The Tam…
139. Lawrence Steyn, Investing in an Industrial America
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Lawrence Steyn moved to Los Angeles to work with Walt Disney, where he helped think through financing new theme parks and movies. After leaving Disney, he went into traditional investment banking. He also mentions that he was a character in a theme park training program, where he was a…
Year 10 Half-Term Revision: Lady Macbeth as a character who changes
In this episode of Study Sessions, we turn to the half-term Lady Macbeth task: 'Lady Macbeth is a female character who changes'. Using the work of literary critic Marjorie Garber as inspiration, we consider her 'loss of affect' and attempts to eliminate her capacity for feeling, a capacity that ult…
Shakespeare and the Red Scare, with Marjorie Garber
“Is he a Communist?” During a House Un-American Activities Committee hearing in 1938, Congressman Joe Starnes probed into the politics of a writer produced by the Federal Theatre Project. The playwright in question? Christopher Marlowe.
While Starnes’s blunder became legendary, Shakespeare and his…
808 A Treacherous Secret Agent - How Literature Spoke Truth to Power During the Red Scare (with Marjorie Garber) | Arthur Miller on Writing "The Crucible"
During the Cold War, hearings led by U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy soon turned into a witch hunt, as paranoia and political opportunism destroyed the careers (and lives) of actors, directors, singers, filmmakers, writers, and prominent scientists who were accused of disloyalty, subversion, and treas…
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