Jeffrey A. Masten (born June 10, 1964[citation needed]) is an American academic specializing in Renaissance English literature and culture and the history of sexuality.
and Ph.D. degrees in English literature at the University of Pennsylvania in 1991, with a Ph.D. dissertation under the direction of Margreta de Grazia and Peter Stallybrass.
[3] He began his teaching career in the English Department at Harvard University, where he was Gardner Cowles Associate Professor in the Humanities.
[8] Masten's published books and articles include influential and "controversial" writing on Renaissance dramatic collaboration and authorship by Shakespeare and his contemporaries,[9] as well as on the early history of sexuality.
[3] At Northwestern, Masten was awarded the E. LeRoy Hall Award for Distinguished Teaching in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences (2002–03),[17] named Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence in 2006,[18] and named Herman and Beulah Pearce Miller Research Professor in Literature in 2009.