#  Leah Whittington 

Professor of English

Director of Undergraduate Studies 

 

 

 



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 smartphone [617-496-0291](tel:617-496-0291) 

 email <lwhittington@fas.harvard.edu> 

 laptop\_windows [Faculty Website](https://scholar.harvard.edu/lwhittington) 

 

 



 

Education: B.A., Harvard University (2002)  
Ph.D., Princeton University (2011)

Interests: Early Modern English Literature; Classical Tradition and Reception; Continental Renaissance; Neo-Latin; Milton.

Selected Works:  
Renaissance Suppliants (Oxford University Press, 2016); “Milton’s Poetics of Supplication” (Milton Studies 55, 2014); “Shakespeare’s Vergil: Empathy and The Tempest” in ed. Patrick Gray and John Cox, Shakespeare and Renaissance Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2014), 98-120; “John Hales’ Funeral Oration for Thomas Bodley: An Edited Translation” (with Daniel Blank), Bodleian Library Record 25:2 (October 2012): 144-182; “Vergil’s Nisus and the Language of Self-Sacrifice in Paradise Lost,” Modern Philology 107:4 (2010): 588-606.



 

 

 





 

 

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