Gail Kern Paster

Gail Kern Paster

Gail Kern Paster has been the Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library since 2002.  She is also Editor of the Shakespeare Quarterly and Professor at George Washington University.  Dr. Paster received her PH.D from Yale University and has held fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation and Yale University.  She also held a NEH Young Humanist Fellowship in 1973-4. She is the author of Humoring the Body: Emotions on the Shakespearean Stage (2004).