Josephine Donovan (born 1941) is an American scholar of comparative literature and professor emerita of English, born in Manila, whose work covers feminist theory and criticism, animal ethics, and early modern and nineteenth century American literature, with particular focus on the writer Sarah Orne Jewett and the local colorists. Along with Marti Kheel and Carol J. Adams she helped introduce ecofeminist care theory into animal ethics, and has published ten books, five edited books, more than fifty articles and seven short stories.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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