#  Marc Shell 

Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English, Emeritus

 

 

 



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 location\_on Office: Barker 265 

 smartphone [617-496-6538 ](<tel:617-496-6538 >) 

 email <mshell@fas.harvard.edu> 

 



 

Education: B.A., Stanford University (1968)  
Ph.D. Yale University (1975)  
  
Interests: Economics &amp; Aesthetics; Nationhood &amp; Language Difference; Kinship Studies; Non-English Languages &amp; Literatures of the United States; Disability &amp; Medical Studies; Renaissance; Comparative Literature; Theory.

Selected Works:  
The Economy of Literature (1978); Money, Language and Thought: Literary and Philosophical Economies from the Medieval to the Modern Era (1982); The End of Kinship: “Measure for Measure,” Incest, and the Ideal of Universal Siblinghood (1988); Children of the Earth: Literature, Politics, and Nationhood (1994); Elizabeth’s Glass: with “The Glass of the Sinful Soul” (1544) by Elizabeth I and “Epistle Dedicatory” and “Conclusion” (1548) by John Bale (1994); Art &amp; Money (1995); American Babel (2002); Polio and Its Aftermath (2005); Stutter (2006).



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Role
    
     [Emeriti](/role/emeriti)