Janet Gezari (born January 27, 1945, in Newark, New Jersey) is a literary critic and scholar and the Lucretia L. Allyn Professor English at Connecticut College.^[1] Her areas of specialization include Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Nabokov, Victorian poetry and novels, contemporary fiction, and Bob Dylan. She was a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in 2010.^[2]

Life

Gezari graduated from Cornell University summa cum laude in 1966. She received a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and attended Yale University, where she received an M. Phil. (1968) and a Ph.D. (1971).

Works

• The Annotated Wuthering Heights, edited with introduction and notes by Janet Gezari, Belknap Press (Harvard), 2014.
• Last Things: Emily Brontë's Poems. Oxford University Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-929818-1.,
• Shirley, re-edited with a new introduction, bibliography, and additional notes, Oxford University Press, 2007.
• Emily Jane Brontë: The Complete Poems, ed. by Janet Gezari, Penguin Press, 1992.
• Charlotte Brontë and Defensive Conduct: The Author and the Body at Risk, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992, ISBN 978-0-8122-3162-5