VES 220: The Animal Moment: The Visual and Verbal Animal

Profiling Shakespeare (Routledge, 2008). Reproduced with permission of Routledge.

Garber has published thirteen books (with two more forthcoming this year), and edited twelve collections of essays. Her topics range from animal studies to literary theory. She has written five widely admired books on Shakespeare, including her two most recent, Profiling Shakespeare (Routledge, 2008) and Shakespeare After All (Pantheon, 2004), which received the 2005 Christian Gauss Book Award from Phi Beta Kappa. Garber has also published a number of works of cultural criticism and theory: Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety (Routledge, 1992), Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life (Simon & Schuster, 1995), Dog Love (Simon & Schuster, 1996), Symptoms of Culture (Routledge, 1998), Sex and Real Estate (Pantheon, 2000), and Quotation Marks (Routledge 2002). Her work on issues concerned with educational theory and university culture include Academic Instincts (Princeton, 2001) and A Manifesto for Literary Study (University of Washington, 2003). In Patronizing the Arts (Princeton University Press, forthcoming 2009), Garber discusses the double meaning of the word “patronizing” and the way patronage (by government, by business, by individuals) has influenced the reception of the arts in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In it, she argues for the centrality of the arts and culture in education today, and puts forward a vision of the university as patron of the arts. Garber is currently at work on a collection of essays about the humanities, and on a new book on Shakespeare and modern culture.