Academics

Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina Featured as Spotlight Scholar

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Gretchen Holbrook Gerzin. Credit: Michael Benabib

Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, professor of English and the Paul Murray Kendall Chair in Biography at UMass Amherst, was recently named a Spotlight Scholar.

Gerzina has dedicated her career to illuminating the lives of others as the author or editor of nine influential books, with two more in progress. Her work, which is both exacting and visionary, brings to light unknown facets of the lives of well-known figures as well as the lives of those overlooked by history.

Read more about Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina and meet the more Spotlight Scholars.