Gabriele Bernhard-Jackson
gbernhar@temple.edu
Gabriele Bernhard Jackson, Professor of English with a specialization
in Renaissance Drama, is the author of Vision and Judgment in Ben Jonson's Drama
(Yale, 1968) and editor of Ben Jonson's Every Man in his Humor (Yale, 1969). Her
essays on Shakespeare, Jonson, and other writers of the period, as well as on
eighteenth-century poetry and philosophy, have appeared in critical journals and
in essay collections, for example, Two Renaissance Mythmakers (Johns Hopkins, 1977), Women
in the Renaissance (University of Massachusetts, 1990), John Locke. Critical
Assessments (Routledge, 1992), Joan of Arc (Chelsea, 1992), Shakespeare and Gender
(Verve, 1995), and Critical Essays on Ben Jonson (G. K. Hall, 1997). She has also
written on the relationship between drama and social change in the years preceding
the English revolution.
Prof. Bernhard Jackson is currently preparing a scholarly edition of Ben Jonson's satirical drama POETASTER (1602) for publication in the new COMPLETE WORKS OF BEN JONSON, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. She has recently completed an article on the relationship between classical myth and identity formation in the English Renaissance. Prof. Bernhard Jackson has lectured on the figure of the strong woman in literature and visual art at the Shakespeare Association of America, the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, and the Literature and Politics Seminar Series of the University of London.
Bernhard Jackson has given invited papers on a variety of Renaissance and
eighteenth-century literary topics at the Northeast Modern Language Association,
the Modern Language Association of America, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance
Studies at Ohio University, the Association for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the
Literary Fellowship of Philadelphia, the International Shakespeare Association,
the English Institute, Bard College, Bryn Mawr College, and LaSalle University.
Before coming to Temple, Bernhard Jackson taught at Yale University and Wellesley
College. Since her appointment at Temple, she has taught a number of times as
Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Bryn Mawr College. She
has also served on fellowship selection committees for the National Endowment for
the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the senior
Fulbright awards. Bernhard Jackson has held research grants from Wellesley
College, Temple University, and the American Council of Learned Societies. She
has directed a summer seminar sponsored by the National Endowment for the
Humanities, on Shakespeare and History. From 1977-80, she served as Interim
Dean of the Graduate School of Temple University.
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