Meet Jewel Spears Brooker

Jewel Spears Brooker, Professor Emerita of Literature at Eckerd College, is the author or editor of ten books, including T. S. Eliot's Dialectical Imagination (2018), T. S. Eliot: The Contemporary Reviews (2004), Mastery and Escape: T. S. Eliot and the Dialectic of Modernism (1994), Reading 'The Waste Land': Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation (1990, coauthored with Joseph Bentley), T. S. Eliot and Our Turning World (2000), The Placing of T. S. Eliot (1991), and Approaches to Teaching Eliot's Poetry and Plays (1988). She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Knight Foundation, and Pew Charitable Trust. She has served as president of the T. S. Eliot Society and the South Atlantic Modern Language Association and as a member of the National Humanities Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is a coeditor of Volume 1 of The Complete Prose, The Apprentice Years, 1905–1918.