Martin Puchner

Martin Puchner

Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature
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Education: B.A., Konstanz University (1992)
Ph.D., Harvard University (1998)

Interests: Cultural history; climate change; world literature; language, migration, and race; theater and performance.

Selected Works:

Culture: The Story of Us, from Cave Art to K-Pop (Norton, 2023); Literature for a Changing Planet (PUP, 2022); The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate (2020, W. W. Norton & Company); The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization (2017, Random House); Gen. ed., The Norton Anthology of World Literature (2012); The Drama of Ideas (2010); co-ed., The Norton Anthology of Drama (2009); ed., Modern Drama: Critical Concepts (2008); Poetry of the Revolution (2006); co-ed., Against Theatre (2006); ed., Six Plays by Henrik Ibsen (2003); Stage Fright (2002).

 

 

 

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