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Jane P. Bowers, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of English at John Jay College, was educated at Harvard University, the University of California at Irvine, and Berkeley, where she received her Ph.D. in English in 1981.  She has written two books on Gertrude Stein, one of which was selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 1991-1992.  Since 1995, she has been on the doctoral faculty of the CUNY Graduate School in the Theater and American Studies programs.  Dr. Bowers taught at John Jay College from 1987-1996.  From 1996-1997 she was a fellow of the Bunting Institute at Harvard and from 1997-2001, Director of the Women’s Studies Program at Hunter College.  She served as Director of Academic Affairs for the CUNY Honors College from 2001-2005 before returning to John Jay in 2005 as the Dean of Undergraduate Studies.