About Gail Kern Paster
Born 1944. Gail Kern Paster is a historian.
Gail Kern Paster (born 1944) is an American Shakespeare scholar, historian and writer.
Life
She was born on November 8, 1944. Paster graduated from North Shore High School in 1962. She received her bachelor's degree from Smith College and her PhD from Yale University.
Career
Paster taught at the George Washington University from 1974 to 2002. From 2002 to 2011, she was the director of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
She has also served as editor of the Shakespeare Quarterly magazine and as interim president and librarian of the Newberry Library from April to October 2023.
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