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Literature
Students majoring in literature develop competencies in analysis and interpretation of texts, skills in presenting ideas in writing and discussion, awareness of English and American literary traditions and cultural contexts, research skills, and appreciation for literature as an art.
Jewel Spears Brooker

Professor of Literature

Jewel Spears Brooker

Jewel Spears Brooker is Professor of Literature at Eckerd College where she has received awards for teaching, scholarship, and campus leadership. She has held visiting appointments at Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Cambridge, and Doshisha (Kyoto) Universities. Dr. Brooker has written or edited eight books, including Approaches to Teaching Eliot's Poetry and Plays (1988), Reading The Waste Land: Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation (1990—coauthored with Joseph Bentley), The Placing of T. S. Eliot (1991), Mastery and Escape: T. S. Eliot and the Dialectic of Modernism (1994), Conversations with Denise Levertov (1998), T. S. Eliot and Our Turning World (2000), and most recently, T. S. Eliot: The Contemporary Reviews (2004). She is the Co-editor of T. S. Eliot’s Complete Prose (vols. 1, 7) and has published scores of essays on modern writers. Professor Brooker has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Knight Foundation, and Pew Charitable Trust and has lectured widely in Europe and Asia. She has served as president of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association and other professional societies, and recently completed a six-year term as a member of the National Humanities Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

CV (Adobe pdf format) | Review of T. S. Eliot: The Contemporary Reviews

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