Marjorie Garber is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English and of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of nineteen single-authored books and the editor or co-editor of seven edited collections. She has also published articles and op-ed pieces in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. She is a member of the advisory board of the public television series Shakespeare Uncovered, and has appeared in several of its programs, as well as in many other television and radio interviews. At Harvard, she has been a Walter Channing Cabot Fellow and has also received teaching awards from the Harvard Extension School and from Yale College. In addition to her teaching and writing, she has held a number of offices in national and international organizations. She was selected by the Boston Public Library as a Literary Light. She is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon, and was the First Inaugural Dean’s Visiting Professor at King’s College, London. She is a member of the American Philosophical Society, and the recipient of a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship.
In her lecture, Garber discussed the future of the humanities and how the interests and practices of humanists intersect with the arts, social sciences, and science.