Jane Donawerth is an emerita professor and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher of the University of Maryland. She taught for 40 years, has published on Shakespeare, early modern women especially their rhetoric, science fiction by women and the history of women's rhetorical theory. She has edited Rhetorical Theory by Women before 1900, An Anthology, and authored Conversational Rhetoric: The Rise and Fall of a Women's Tradition. She was a founding co-editor of Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and coedited volumes by Madeleine de Scudery and Margaret Fell.