Josephine Donovan
Josephine Donovan (born 1941) is an American scholar of
comparative literature who is a
professor emerita of
English in the Department of English at the
University of Maine, Orono. Her research and expertise has covered
feminist theory,
feminist criticism,
animal ethics, and both
early modern and
American (particularly
19th century) literature with a special focus on American writer Sarah Orne Jewett and the local colorists. She recently extended her study of local color literature to the European tradition. Along with
Marti Kheel,
Carol J. Adams, and others, Donovan introduced
ecofeminist care theory, rooted in
cultural feminism, to the field of animal ethics. Her published corpus includes ten books, five edited books, over fifty articles, and seven short stories.
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