# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/josephine-donovan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:20:52.498Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/josephine-donovan"
name: "Josephine Donovan"
slug: "josephine-donovan"
description: "Josephine Donovan is an American scholar of comparative literature who is a professor emerita of English in the Department of English at the University of Maine, Orono. Her research and expertise has covered feminist theory, feminist criticism, animal ethics, and both early modern and American literature with a special focus on American writer Sarah Orne Jewett and the local colorists. She recently extended her study of local color literature to the European tradition. Along with Marti Kheel, Carol J. Adams, and others, Donovan introduced ecofeminist care theory, rooted in cultural feminism, to the field of animal ethics. Her published corpus includes ten books, five edited books, over fifty articles, and seven short stories."
tagline: "American professor"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1941-12-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           6.80612
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump