Associate Professor

 

Education:

• BA - Cleveland State U
• MA - Case Western Reserve U
• PhD - Case Western Reserve U (1987)

 

Professor Gajowski has produced three books on Shakespeare, her area of specialization: Presentism, Gender, and Sexuality in Shakespeare (forthcoming); Re-Visions of Shakespeare: Essays in Honor of Robert Ornstein (2004), and The Art of Loving: Female Subjectivity and Male Discursive Traditions in Shakespeare's Tragedies (1992). Her most recent publication, “Lavinia as ‘blank page’ and feminist critical practices,” was published by Routledge in Presentist Shakespeares, edited by Hugh Grady and Terence Hawkes.

 

She is an active member of the Shakespeare Association of America and the International Shakespeare Association, having organized and chaired several research seminars: “The Presence of Shakespeare and War” at the 35 th SAA Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA, in 2007 (Chair); "Performing Shakespeare and Gender in the Present" at the 8th World Shakespeare Congress in Brisbane, Australia, in 2006 (Co-Chair); "Shakespeare, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in the Present" at the 33rd SAA Annual Meeting in Bermuda in 2005 (Co-Chair); “Postmodern Pedagogies/Early Modern Classrooms” at the 21 st SAA Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA, in 1993 (Co-Chair); and “Crossdressing” at the 19 th SAA Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada, in 1991 (Co-Chair).

 

Professor Gajowski has delivered more than fifty invited and refereed papers on Shakespeare and related subjects at UCLA’s Shakespeare Symposium and international, national, and regional conferences. She has served as President and Executive Board member of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association and on the Board of Trustees of Nevada Shakespeare in the Park.

 

As the Shakespearean in the Department of English, she is primarily responsible for teaching graduate seminars and undergraduate courses in Shakespeare, but she also teaches courses in early modern English literature and culture, gender issues, and literary theory. She has served on sixty graduate student committees, having directed the dissertations of PhD students now employed in tenured or tenure-track positions across the country.