Elisa New
Professor of English, Harvard University
Elisa New is the director and host of Poetry in America, director of Verse Video Education, and the Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University, where she teaches courses in classic American literature from the Puritans through the present day.
Why reading is a form of therapy in times of crisis
Our live stream with Harvard literature professor Lisa New begins at 1 pm ET today.
Exploring the Most Enigmatic Line in American Literature
Melville's sentence exposes the fiction between employers and employees that employees have any choice in the matter.
The Academy: A Place for Thoughtful Discourse in a World that is Shallow and Cheap
It's a great luxury for a society to take it's 18 to 21 year olds and to let them develop as thinkers.
Hawthorne Feels Your Pain
Harvard Professor Lisa New describes how Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of Seven Gables speaks to classic American responses to economic crisis.