Elisa New
Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University

Areas of expertise
- - - American poetry
- - - American Literature - 1900
- - - Religion and Literature
- - - Jewish Literature
Major works
- The Regenerate Lyric: Theology and Innovation in American Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 1992)
- The Line's Eye: Poetic Experience, American Sight (Harvard University Press, 1999)
- Jacob's Cane: A Jewish Family's Journey from the Four Lands of Lithuania to the Ports of London and Baltimore (2009)
- New England Beyond Criticism: In Defense of America's First Literature (Wiley Blackwell, 2014)
- How to Read American Poetry (forthcoming from Wiley Blackwell)