Jennifer Summit
Professor Jennifer Summit | |
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| Occupation(s) | Provost, San Francisco State University |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Vassar College (AB) Johns Hopkins University (PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | English studies, History |
| Sub-discipline | Medieval literature, Renaissance literature, Medieval women, Gender studies, History of books |
Jennifer Summit (born 1965) is an American scholar of medieval and Renaissance English literature and was a professor of English at Stanford University, where she was chair of the English department between 2008 and 2011. In 2013, Summit became dean of undergraduate studies at San Francisco State University. Summit is currently the provost at San Francisco State University.