Gayle Greene

Gayle Greene (born 1943) is an American literary critic, writer, editor, and professor emerita at Scripps College, Claremont, California.

[4] Greene later focused on subjects aimed at a wider readership, and wrote the authorized biography of radiation epidemiologist and anti-nuclear guru Alice Stewart, The Woman Who Knew Too Much: Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation,[5] which was first published in 1999.

Some of Greene's work drew her into a controversy about the role of ideology in reading that became the centerpiece for the anthology Shakespeare Left and Right.

[6] She argued that traditional critical approaches are themselves enmeshed in ideology, though they're taken to be neutral and "objective" because they're familiar.

[7] Her 1991 article "The Myth of Neutrality, Again" was criticized in 2018 as "ideological" and threatening to reduce the great thinkers of western culture to 'dead white men'.