Joanna Shaw

Dr. Joanna Shaw Myers is a graduate of Cambridge University, where she received her degree in English Literature, and the University of Pennsylvania, where she received her PhD.  She was Head of the English Department at Chestnut Hill College and later taught at Rutgers University. 

Her memoir, A Shaw’s Life - provides a fresh look at the Shaw family, including her brother, the actor Robert Shaw - offers a peek into what happened on the set of JAWS when the cameras were not rolling - and serves up a lifetime of experience about her fight for equal rights for women and minorities.

Dr. Shaw now lives with her daughter, is the nanny for her two youngest grandchildren, and continues to laugh at herself and the rest of the world.