Marjorie Garber, the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English and American Literature and Language and of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University, will present a talk titled “Shakespeare and Modern Culture” on Thursday, April 10, at 6:45 p.m. in the Kaplanoff Periodicals Room at the Academy Library.

Ms. Garber is chair of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies and Director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard. She is a senior trustee of the English Institute, a member of the board of directors of the American Council of Learned Societies, and served until recently as the president of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes.

Garber has published 12 books and edited seven collections of essays, on topics ranging from animal studies to literary theory. She has written four books on Shakespeare, including her most recent, Shakespeare After All (Pantheon, 2004), which received the 2005 Christian Gauss Book Award from Phi Beta Kappa. Her newest book, Profiling Shakespeare, is scheduled to be published this spring.

The talk, sponsored by the James Haley Fund, is free and open to the public.

For further information, please contact Academy Librarian Jacquelyn Thomas at (603) 777-3328.