Dr. Jewel Spears Brooker

Jewel Spears Brooker, Professor of Literature at Eckerd College since 1981, has received awards for teaching, scholarship, and campus leadership. She has held visiting professorships at Columbia University, Doshisha University (Kyoto), and Colorado School of Mines, and research appointments at Yale, Harvard, and Cambridge Universities. Dr. Brooker has written or edited seven books and published scores of essays on modern writers. She has received major fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Knight Foundation, and Pew Charitable Trust. She has lectured widely in Europe and Asia and has served as president of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association and other professional societies. In 2003, she was approved by the United States Senate for a six-year term as a member of the National Humanities Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities.