Jennifer Summit
Encyclopedia
Jennifer Summit is an American scholar of Medieval
and Renaissance English Literature
and Professor of English at Stanford University
. Summit is the Eleanor Loring Ritch University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford and is currently Chair of the Stanford English Department.
(Los Altos, California), Professor Summit received her BA from Vassar College
in 1987 where she graduated with highest honors and Phi Beta Kappa. She was award a PhD by The Johns Hopkins University in 1995.
Summit joined the Stanford faculty in 1995 and was granted tenure in 2001.
Summit's work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities
, the American Council of Learned Societies
and the Stanford Humanities Center. She received the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1998.
Her most recent book, Memory's Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England (2008), was awarded the Roland H. Bainton Book Prize by the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference
(SCSC) and the John Ben Snow Foundation Book Prize from the North American Conference on British Studies (NCBS). Her first book, Lost Property: the Woman Writer and English Literary History, 1380-1589, was published in 2000.
Professor Summit's research interests bridge the medieval and early modern periods and focus on the histories of reading, literature, and knowledge, with a special interest in literacy and the disciplines today.
Summit is the daughter of Roger K. Summit
, founder of Dialog Information Services
and Virginia M. Summit, author and current mayor of Los Altos Hills, CA.
Medieval literature
Medieval literature is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written works available in Europe and beyond during the Middle Ages . The literature of this time was composed of religious writings as well as secular works...
and Renaissance English Literature
Renaissance literature
Renaissance Literature refers to the period in European literature that began in Italy during the 14th century and spread around Europe through the 17th century...
and Professor of English at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
. Summit is the Eleanor Loring Ritch University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford and is currently Chair of the Stanford English Department.
History
A graduate of Los Altos High SchoolLos Altos High School (Los Altos, California)
Los Altos High School, established in 1954, is a public school located in the affluent Silicon Valley suburb of Los Altos, California. It has generally demonstrated a high level of academic achievement...
(Los Altos, California), Professor Summit received her BA from Vassar College
Vassar College
Vassar College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, in the United States. The Vassar campus comprises over and more than 100 buildings, including four National Historic Landmarks, ranging in style from Collegiate Gothic to International,...
in 1987 where she graduated with highest honors and Phi Beta Kappa. She was award a PhD by The Johns Hopkins University in 1995.
Summit joined the Stanford faculty in 1995 and was granted tenure in 2001.
Summit's work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities
National Endowment for the Humanities
The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent federal agency of the United States established by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. The NEH is located at...
, the American Council of Learned Societies
American Council of Learned Societies
The American Council of Learned Societies , founded in 1919, is a private nonprofit federation of seventy scholarly organizations.ACLS is best known as a funder of humanities research through fellowships and grants awards. ACLS Fellowships are designed to permit scholars holding the Ph.D...
and the Stanford Humanities Center. She received the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1998.
Her most recent book, Memory's Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England (2008), was awarded the Roland H. Bainton Book Prize by the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference
Sixteenth Century Society and Conference
The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference is a learned society that promotes research on the early modern period. The society is interdisciplinary in membership, welcoming scholars in history, art history, religion, history of science, musicology, dance history, and literary and cultural...
(SCSC) and the John Ben Snow Foundation Book Prize from the North American Conference on British Studies (NCBS). Her first book, Lost Property: the Woman Writer and English Literary History, 1380-1589, was published in 2000.
Professor Summit's research interests bridge the medieval and early modern periods and focus on the histories of reading, literature, and knowledge, with a special interest in literacy and the disciplines today.
Summit is the daughter of Roger K. Summit
Roger K. Summit
Roger K. Summit is the founder of Dialog Information Services, and has been called the father of modern online search. He worked for Lockheed in the 1960s, was put in charge of its information retrieval lab, and from his work created a system that became known as Dialog and spun off by Lockheed in...
, founder of Dialog Information Services
Dialog (online database)
Dialog is an online information service owned by ProQuest, who acquired it from Thomson Reuters in mid-2008.Dialog was one of the predecessors of the World Wide Web as a provider of information, though not in form. The earliest form of the Dialog system was completed in 1966 under the direction of...
and Virginia M. Summit, author and current mayor of Los Altos Hills, CA.
Published Works
- Memory's Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2008) ISBN 0226781712
- Lost Property: the Woman Writer and English Literary History, 1380-1589 (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2000) ISBN 0226780139
- The History of British Women's Writing, 1500-1610: Vol 2 (Palgrave, 2010) co-edited with Caroline Bicks (Boston College) ISBN 0230218342
- "Rethinking Periodization," a special issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Duke, 2007) co-edited with David Wallace (U. Penn) ASIN B0021WUW08