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Jewel Spears Brooker is Professor Emerita of Literature at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida where she received awards for teaching, scholarship, and campus leadership. She has held visiting research or teaching appointments at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Oxford (Merton College), Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Cambridge, and Doshisha (Kyoto) Universities.
Dr. Brooker is the author or editor of 11 books, most recently T. S. Eliot's Dialectical Imagination (2018). Her earlier work includes Mastery and Escape: T. S. Eliot and the Dialectic of Modernism (1994) and Reading The Waste Land: Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation (1990, co-author, Joseph Bentley). She is the co-editor with Ronald Schuchard of two volumes of the critical edition of The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: Apprentice Years, 1905-1918 (2014) and Still and Still Moving, 1954-1965 (2019).