# Martin Puchner Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature *Currently accepting graduate student advisees ![puchner](/sites/g/files/omnuum1611/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/english/files/puchner1.jpg?itok=H3dzE4y_) location\_on Office: Barker 220 smartphone [617-495-1139](tel:617-495-1139) email laptop\_windows Office hours: by appointment. Pronouns: he/him/his 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 ](https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393867992)(Norton, 2023); [Literature for a Changing Planet ](https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691213750/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)](http://www.martinpuchner.com/language-of-thieves.html); [The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization (2017, Random House)](https://www.amazon.com/Written-World-Stories-History-Civilization/dp/0812998936); 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). He writes a regular newsletter on art, culture, and technology at - ## Role [Faculty](/role/faculty)