Elaine ShowalterElaine Showalter recently retired from the post of chair of the department of English at Princeton. For many years she has been one of the foremost feminist academics and critics in the United States. She is a frequent contributor to the New York<i> Times Book Review, the TLS, the Guardian and the London Review of Books , and writes an occasional television column for People magazine. She is the author of a number of books on feminism and women’s writing. Read More Read Less