#  Deidre Shauna Lynch 

Harvard College Professor. Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature

*Currently not accepting graduate student advisees

(On leave Spring 2027)

 

 

 



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 location\_on She/her Office: Barker 145 

 smartphone [617-384-9336](tel:617-384-9336) 

 email <deidrelynch@fas.harvard.edu> 

 laptop\_windows [Personal Webpage](https://deidrelynch.org) 

 

Mondays, 3-5 p.m., and Tuesdays 2-3 p.m., and by appointment (in Barker 145)

 

 



 

Education: B.A. Hons., University of British Columbia (1983)  
A.M., Ph.D., Stanford University (1992)  
  
Interests: Eighteenth-century and Romantic-period British literature and culture; theory and history of the novel; the Gothic; the Enlightenment; book history and the history of reading; affect theory; history of English studies.

Selected Works:  
(co-ed. with Alexandra Gillespie), *The Unfinished Book: Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature* (2021); (ed.) *The Romantic Period, vol. D of The Norton Anthology of English Literature* (2018); (ed.) *Jane Austen, Mansfield Park: An Annotated Edition* (2016); *Loving Literature: A Cultural History* (2015); (ed.) *Janeites: Austen’s Disciples and Devotees* (2000); *The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning* (1998); (co-ed with William Warner) *Cultural Institutions of the Novel* (1996).

I welcome conversation with all undergraduate and graduate students, but as a first-generation college student myself, I am especially eager to support first-generation Harvard students.



 

 

 





 

 

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