Spears Brooker

Jewel Spears Brooker, "Professor of Literature at Eckerd College, has held research or teaching appointments at Yale University, Columbia University, Harvard University, and Cambridge University. She is the author of dozens of essays on modern literature and has written or edited eight books on modern literature, including T. S. Eliot: The Contemporary Reviews and  Mastery and Escape: T.S. Eliot and the Dialectic of Modernism. Ms. Spears Brooker has received grants from NEH, the 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. Ms. Spears Brooker received a B.S. from Stetson University, an M.A. from the University of Florida, and a Ph.D. from the University of South Florida."


 * Council Member, National Endowment for the Humanities