Janet Gezari (born January 27, 1945 in

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. Her areas of specialization include

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and

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and

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, contemporary fiction, and

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. She was a Berlin Prize Fellow at the

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in 2010.http://www.americanacademy.de/home/fellows/detailansicht/person///janet_gezari/361/detail/

Life

Gezari graduated from

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''summa cum laude'' in 1966. She received a

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and attended

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, where she received an M. Phil. (1968) and a Ph.D. (1971).

Works

*''The Annotated Wuthering Heights'', edited with introduction and notes by Janet Gezari, Belknap Press (Harvard), 2014. *, *''Shirley'', re-edited with a new introduction, bibliography, and additional notes, Oxford University Press, 2007. *''Emily Jane Brontë: The Complete Poems'', ed. by Janet Gezari, Penguin Press, 1992. *''Charlotte Brontë and Defensive Conduct: The Author and the Body at Risk'', University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992,

References

External links

*http://bronteblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/interview-to-janet-gezari.html *http://www.weeklystandard.com/author/janet-gezari {{DEFAULTSORT:Gezari, Janet Connecticut College faculty Cornell University alumni Yale University alumni Living people 1945 births