20 Facts About Janet Adelman

Janet Ann Adelman was an American Shakespeare scholar, literary critic, and professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

Janet Adelman authored another book, Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origins in Shakespeare's Plays, Hamlet to the Tempest, that discusses maternal characters over many of Shakespeare's works.

Janet Adelman was born in Mount Kisco, New York, on January 28,1941.

Janet Adelman then attended St Hugh's College, Oxford in England the following year supported by a Fulbright Fellowship.

Janet Adelman received a Master of Arts degree in English from Yale University in 1966 and a Ph.

Janet Adelman joined the University of California, Berkeley Department of English as an acting assistant professor in 1968, earned tenure in 1972, and became a full professor in 1981.

Janet Adelman eventually served as the department's chair from 1999 to 2002 and retired in 2007.

Janet Adelman belonged to the Modern Language Association and Shakespeare Association of America.

Janet Adelman was an interdisciplinary member of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.

Janet Adelman was associated with the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and the Anna Freud Centre, both in London.

Janet Adelman served on both the graduate admissions and faculty appointments committees of what became the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, and she became the dissertation director for four Ph.

Janet Adelman served the University in numerous other capacities, among them as a member of the Reading and Composition Task Force from 2006 to 2007, and a participant in the search for a dean of humanities in 2005.

Janet Adelman spent the summers of 1972 and 1973 in Perugia studying Italian language and literature.

Janet Adelman received a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship to the Bellagio Study Center in 1998, and a Bogliasco Foundation fellowship to the Liguria Study Center in 2003.

Janet Adelman became fluent in Italian, watched Italian movies, and shopped at their local outdoor market.

An active member of the Kehilla Community Synagogue in Piedmont, California, Janet Adelman chaired several committees there.

Janet Adelman studied biblical Hebrew at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and was preparing to teach a course at Kehilla on traditional liturgy before she died.

In "The Common Liar: An Essay on 'Antony and Cleopatra,'" Janet Adelman provides critical analysis on Shakespeare's tragedy from the roles and persona of the characters to the psychological and mystical matters.

Janet Adelman's book focuses on a handful of Shakespeare's works: Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, Othello, All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, King Lear, Macbeth, Coriolanus, Timon of Athens, and Antony and Cleopatra.

Janet Adelman focuses on either the role of the maternal figure of the play or the lack of one, and the effects on the male characters.