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Leah Price

Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English

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    Curriculum Vitae 

    I teach the novel, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and occasionally French culture, gender, and book history.

    My books include How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain (Princeton UP, 2012; Patten Prize, Channing Prize, honorable mention for James Russell Lowell Prize) and The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel (Cambridge UP, 2000).  I also edited Unpacking my Library: Writers and their Books (Yale UP, 2011); Literary Secretaries/Secretarial Culture (with Pamela Thurschwell); and (with Seth Lerer) a cluster of essays of PMLA on The History of the Book and the Idea of Literature. 

    I write for the New York Times Book Review, London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe and Public Books (where I am also a section editor). On the page as in the classroom, I search for ways to make potentially arcane topics accessible, and my research has been profiled in The New Yorker, The Economist, and the New York Times. In 2015, I contributed the nineteenth-century module to Harvard's online course on the history of the book.

    Recent activities: Pulitzer Prize jury; Guggenheim Fellowship; NEH Public Scholar Fellowship.

    Forthcoming: What We Talk About When We Talk About Books (Basic 2019).  I am curious about what, where, when, and how you read (sitting or standing? in public or private? on paper or plastic? by purchase or loan or hand-me-down or gift?), with whom, & most of all why.

     

    • Join the Humanities Center research seminar on the History of the Book
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    • Browse resources for Book history @ Harvard.

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