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Josephine Donovan (born 1941) is an American scholar ofcomparative literature who is aprofessor emerita ofEnglish in the Department of English at theUniversity of Maine, Orono. Her research and expertise has coveredfeminist theory,feminist criticism,animal ethics, and bothearly modern andAmerican (particularly19th 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 withMarti Kheel,Carol J. Adams, and others, Donovan introducedecofeminist care theory, rooted incultural feminism, to the field of animal ethics. Her published corpus includes ten books, five edited books, over fifty articles, and seven short stories.

Donovan was born inManila in thePhilippines in 1941, and was, with her mother, evacuated shortly beforethe attack on Pearl Harbor. Her father, acaptain in theUS Army, remained; in 1942, he was captured by the Japanese. Donovan subsequently edited and published his memoirs.^[1] Majoring in history, she studied atBryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, graduating, cum laude, in 1962. Subsequently, she worked in journalism, as aclerk on thecopy desks atThe Washington Post andTime and as a reporter for a small New York newspaper. Concurrent with her work, she studiedcreative writing atColumbia University. She went on to study at theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison, reading for anMA (graduating 1967) and aPhD (graduating 1971), both incomparative literature. She subsequently held positions at the University of Kentucky (Honors Program), the University of New Hampshire (as the first coordinator of the Women's Studies Program), and visiting professor positions at George Washington University and the University of Tulsa.^[2]), as well as working as a copy editor forG. K. Hall & Co. She took early retirement from her position of professor of English at the University of Maine to allow more time for both research and writing, and is currently a professor emerita.^[1]

• Sarah Orne Jewett. New York:Ungar, 1980. (Revised edition released by Cybereditions in 2001.)
• New England Local Color Literature: A Women's Tradition. New York: Ungar, 1983.
• Feminist Theory: The Intellectual Traditions. New York: Ungar, 1985. (Second edition released byContinuum in 1992, third edition released by Continuum in 2000, and fourth edition released by Bloomsbury in 2012.)
• After the Fall: The Demeter-Persephone Myth in Wharton, Cather and Glasgow. University Park, PA:Pennsylvania State University Press, 1989.
• Gnosticism in Modern Literature: A Study of Selected Works of Camus, Sartre, Hesse, and Kafka. New York:Garland, 1990.
• Uncle Tom's Cabin: Evil, Affliction, and Redemptive Love. Boston:Twayne, 1991. (Revised edition released by Cybereditions, 2001.)
• Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405-1726. New York:St. Martin's Press, 1999. (Revised and expanded second edition released byPalgrave Macmillan in 2013.)
• European Local-Color Literature: National Tales, Dorfgeschichten, Romans Champêtres. New York:Bloomsbury, 2010.
• The Aesthetics of Care. On the Literary Treatment of Animals. New York, London, Oxford: Bloomsbury, 2016.
• The Lexington Six: Lesbian and Gay Resistance in 1970s America. Amherst/Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2020.
• Animals, Mind, and Matter: The Inside Story. Michigan State University Press, 2022.

• Feminist Literary Criticism: Explorations in Theory. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1975. (Second edition released in 1989.)
• Animals and Women: Feminist Theoretical Explorations. Durham, N.C.:Duke University Press, 1995. (Co-edited withCarol J. Adams).
• Beyond Animal Rights: A Feminist Caring Ethic for the Treatment of Animals. New York: Continuum, 1996. (Co-edited with Carol J. Adams).
• P. O. W. in the Pacific: Memoirs of an American Doctor in World War II. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1998. (By William N. Donovan).
• The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics: A Reader. New York:Columbia University Press, 2007. (Co-edited with Carol J. Adams).

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• Jane Gallop, "An Idea Presented before Its Time." InAround 1981: Academic Feminist Literary Theory (1992), chap. 8.
• Mary M. Dalton. "Power, Patterns, and the Gendered Narrative."Journal of Film and Video 65, no. 1-2 (2013).
• Kelly M. Robbins.Appeals for Compassion: The Uses of Anthropomorphism and Sentimentality in Animal Advocacy Campaigns. Ph.D. diss. Drew University, 2016.
• Carlo Alvero. "Josephine Donovan and Virtue Ethics." InVeganism Is A Virtue. Ph.D. diss. New School, 2017.

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