Anne Shaver

{{Infobox academic

| name = Anne Shaver

| education = University of Kentucky
Northwestern University
Ohio University

| discipline = English literature, queer studies

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Anne Shaver is an American literary scholar who is a professor emeritus at Denison University. She worked at the university from 1972 until her retirement in 2000 when she was the Lorena Woodrow Burke Professor of English.

Life

Shaver earned an A.B. from the University of Kentucky in 1962 and an M.A. from Northwestern University in 1964.{{Cite news |date=1973-12-18 |title=Dr. Shaver earns Ph.D. from Ohio U |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-newark-advocate-dr-shaver-earns-ph/138422587/ |access-date=2024-01-10 |work=The Newark Advocate |pages=13 |via=Newspapers.com}}

Shaver taught at the University of Kentucky and Murray State University. She was a teaching assistant at Ohio University for three years. Shaver joined Denison University as an instructor of English the fall of 1972. She completed a Ph.D. from Ohio University in 1973 and was inducted as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. By 1986, Shaver was a tenured associate professor at Denison University.{{Cite web |last=Wilson |first=Shelia |date=June 2015 |title=Interview |url=https://www.expandingarchives.org/files/original/a3a64485cb3db40508669317582cc301.pdf |access-date=2023-01-09 |website=Denison's Queer Studies Program}}{{Cite journal |last=Women's Studies |date=1988-01-01 |title=Women's Studies Colloquium Flyer 1988 |url=https://digitalcommons.denison.edu/lookingback/131 |journal=Looking Back, Looking Forward}} That same year, she began a relationship with English professor Susanne Woods. In 1992, she began teaching a partnership and politics freshman course that became a precursor for the university's queer studies concentration. By 1999, Shaver was the Lorena Woodrow Burke Professor of English.{{Cite web |title=Anne Shaver {{!}} Hopkins Press |url=https://press.jhu.edu/books/authors/anne-shaver |access-date=2024-01-10 |website=press.jhu.edu}} She retired from Denison University in 2000.

Shaver is a professor emeritus at Denison University.{{Cite web |date=2024-01-09 |title=Anne Shaver {{!}} Faculty & Staff {{!}} Denison University |url=https://denison.edu/people/anne-shaver |access-date=2024-01-10 |website=denison.edu |language=en}}

Selected works

{{Cite book |title=The Convent of Pleasure" and Other Plays |date=1999 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |isbn=978-0-8018-6099-7 |editor-last=Shaver |editor-first=Anne |language=en}}Review of The Covenant of Pleasure:
{{Cite journal |last=Sarasohn |first=Lisa T. |date=September 2001 |title=Review |journal=Isis |language=en |volume=92 |issue=3 |pages=609 |doi=10.1086/385315 |issn=0021-1753 |jstor=3080767}}