Jane Donawerth

Jane Donawerth, professor emerita and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, specializes in history of rhetoric and rhetorical theory by women, early modern women’s writing, Shakespeare, pedagogy, and science fiction by women. She has won 7 teaching awards, 2 NEH fellowships, a career award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, and a career award for gender study in SF by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. She has published books on Shakespeare, science fiction by women, an anthology of rhetorical theory by women, and most recently, Conversational Rhetoric: The Rise and Fall of a Women’s Tradition 1600 to 1900. She also co-translated selected rhetorical works by Madeleine de Scudéry, and helped found the “Attending to Early Modern Women” conference, and the award-winning Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Her most recent publications include an edition of Margaret Fell’s Women’s Speaking Justified and Other Pamphlets, co-edited with UM PhD Rebecca Lush, and an essay on “Early Modern Women and Education” in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing, co-authored with UM PhD Karen Nelson. Her former graduate students are teaching across the United States and in Canada and Puerto Rico.