Jean Howard

Jean E. Howard is George Delacorte professor in the humanities at Columbia University where she teaches early modern literature, Shakespeare, feminist studies, and theater history. Author of several books, including The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England, Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare’s English Histories, co-written with Phyllis Rackin, and Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy 1598-1642. She is also an editor of The Norton Shakespeare and the Bedford contextual editions of Shakespeare. She has published articles on Caryl Churchill and Tony Kushner and is completing a new book on the history play in twentieth and twentieth-first century American and English theater.