Katherine Rowe | |
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President of the College of William and Mary | |
Assumed office July 1, 2018 | |
Preceded by | W. Taylor Reveley III |
Provost and Dean of Faculty at Smith College | |
In office July 1, 2014 – June 30, 2018 | |
Preceded by | Marilyn Schuster |
Succeeded by | Joseph O'Rourke (acting) |
Personal details | |
Spouse | Bruce Jacobson |
Children | 2 |
Education | Carleton College (BA) Harvard University (MA, PhD) |
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Academic background | |
Thesis | The Dead Hand: Fictions of Agency and the Physiology of Possession (1992) |
Doctoral advisor | Marjorie Garber |
Academic work | |
Discipline | English and American Literature |
Institutions | |
Katherine Anandi Rowe is an American scholar of Renaissance literature and media history. She was named the twenty-eighth president of the College of William & Mary on February 20, 2018.[1] She began her service on July 2, 2018 succeeding W. Taylor Reveley III, who had served as president since 2008 and is the first woman to be named president.[2] After seven months in office, Rowe was formally inaugurated on February 8, 2019 as part of the university's annual Charter Day ceremony.[3]
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