Stephen Greenblatt
Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of English and American Literature at Harvard University and a Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic.
He earned his Ph.D. from Yale and is considered a founder of New Historicism, often called "cultural poetics." Greenblatt serves as General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and co-founded the journal Representations.
His nine books include the bestseller Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare and The Swerve: How the World Became Modern.
He has received numerous honors, including the MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize and the Mellon Foundation's Distinguished Humanist Award.
