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Stephen Greenblatt

Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University

Harvard University

Areas of expertise

  • - - Shakespeare
  • - - Early Modern Literature and Culture
  • - - Literature of Travel and Exploration
  • - - Religion and Literature
  • - - Literature and Anthropology
  • - - Literary and Cultural Theory

About me

Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author of twelve books, including The Swerve: How the World Became Modern; Shakespeare's Freedom; Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare; Hamlet in Purgatory; Marvelous Possessions; and Renaissance Self-Fashioning. He is General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and of The Norton Shakespeare, has edited seven collections of criticism, and is a founding editor of the journal Representations.