#  Philip Fisher 

Felice Crowl Reid Professor of English, Emeritus

 

 

 



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 location\_on Office: Barker 153 

 smartphone [617-496-4961](tel:617-496-4961) 

 email <pjfisher@fas.harvard.edu> 

 



 

Education: A.B., University Pittsburgh (1963)  
M.A., Harvard University (1966)  
Ph.D., Harvard University (1971)

Interests: American Novel; English Novel; Cultural Theory; Modernism; American Art and its Cultural Institutions; The Philosophy and Literature of the Passions; Narrative Theory; Game Theory and the Novel.

Selected Works:  
The Vehement Passions (2002); Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction (1998-99); Wonder, the Rainbow and the Aesthetics of Rare Experiences (1998); Making and Effacing Art (1991); (ed.) New American Studies (1991); Hard Facts (1986); Making Up Society (1981).



 

 

 





 

 

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