#  Stephen Greenblatt 

John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities

*Currently accepting graduate student advisees

 

 

 



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 location\_on Office: Barker 154 

 smartphone [617-495-2101](tel:617-495-2101) 

 email <greenbl@fas.harvard.edu> 

 laptop\_windows [Faculty Website](https://sites.harvard.edu/stephen-greenblatt/) 

 

Tuesdays 2-4pm in Barker 154.

 

 



 

Education: B.A., Yale (1964)  
M.Phil., Cambridge (1966)  
Ph.D., Yale (1969)

Interests: Shakespeare; Early Modern Literature and Culture; Literature of Travel and Exploration; Religion and Literature; Literature and Anthropology; Literary and Cultural Theory.

Selected Works:  
Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics (2018); The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve (2017); The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (2011); Shakespeare’s Freedom (2010); Cultural Mobility (2010); Will in the World (2004); Hamlet in Purgatory (2001); Gen. ed. The Norton Anthology of English Literature (2000); Practicing New Historicism (with Catherine Gallagher, 2000); Gen. ed. Norton Shakespeare (1997); ed. New World Encounters (1993); Marvelous Possessions (1991); Learning to Curse (1990); Shakespearean Negotiations (1988); Renaissance Self-Fashioning (1980); Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud (2024); Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival (2025).

*Photo by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer*



 

 

 





 

 

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