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John S. Garrison
Born1970
Pittsburgh
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of California, Davis
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Occupation(s)Author, Professor
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship

John S. Garrison is an American scholar of William Shakespeare and renaissance literature He is a professor of English at Grinnell College.[1][2][3] In 2021, he was named a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for his scholarship on English literature.[4]

Early life and education

Garrison was born in Pittsburgh. He is the son of civil engineer William Louis Garrison.[5]

Garrison earned a Bachelor of Arts in English literature from University of California, Berkeley in 1993 and a Ph.D. from University of California, Davis in 2007. Prior to obtaining his graduate degree in English literature, Garrison worked for organizations in both the private and public sectors, including the Levi Strauss Foundation.[6]

Career

His book Glass was one of the first books in the Object Lessons series. His thinking on the cultural history of this material has also been featured in The Atlantic and on the Colin McEnroe Show, an NPR podcast.[7]

In 2021, Garrison was named a Guggenheim Fellow.

Bibliography

  • Friendship and Queer Theory in the Renaissance. Routledge, 2013. ISBN 978-0367868734
  • Glass. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. ISBN 978-1628924244
  • With Kyle Pivetti: Sexuality and Memory in Early Modern England: Literature and the Erotics of Recollection. Routledge, 2015. ISBN 9780367871987

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