About Stanton Garner
Born 1955. Stanton Garner is an American historian.
Stanton B. Garner Jr. (born 1955) is an American scholar of drama, theater, and performance who specializes in modern and contemporary drama, theatre and performance theory, and medical humanities. A graduate of the Pennsylvania State University and Princeton University, he is currently James Douglas Bruce Professor of English and Theater at the University of Tennessee. With J. Ellen Gainor and Martin Puchner, he is co-editor of the Norton Anthology of Drama and The Shorter Norton Anthology of Drama (2009; 3rd ed. 2018) (W. W. Norton & Company).
His late father, Stanton Garner (1925 - 2011), was a scholar of nineteenth-century American literature.
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Who is Stanton Garner?
American scholar of drama and theater
When was Stanton Garner born?
Stanton Garner was born in 1955.
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Stanton Garner is a historian.
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Stanton Garner is American.
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