History and Literature
Members of the Steering Committee on Degrees in History and Literature
Daniel G. Donoghue, Professor of English and American Literature and Language (Chair, fall term)
Stephen J. Greenblatt, Professor of English and American Literature and Language (Chair, spring term) (on leave fall term)
Richard Charles Adams, Assistant Professor of English and American Literature and Language and of History and Literature
K. Anthony Appiah, Professor of Afro-American Studies and of Philosophy
Steven H. Biel, Lecturer on History and Literature, Director of Studies, History and Literature
Ann M. Blair, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences
Lawrence Buell, Harvard College Professor and the John P. Marquand Professor of English
James Engell, Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Bradley S. Epps, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
Ruth Feldstein, Assistant Professor of History and of History and Literature
Virginie Greene, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of History and Literature
Alan Heimert, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature (on leave 1999-00)
Kristin Lee Hoganson, Assistant Professor of History and of History and Literature (on leave 1999-00)
Robert Kiely, Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English
Barbara K. Lewalski, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of History and Literature and of English Literature
Christie McDonald, Smith Professor of French Language and Literature
Susan Pedersen, Professor of History
John Stauffer, Assistant Professor of History and Literature and of English and American Literature and Language
Alfred Thomas, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities
Affiliated Members of the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature
David D. Hall, Professor of American Religious History on the Bartlett and Emerson Funds (Divinity School)
Francisco Márquez, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of Afro-American Studies (on leave 1999-00)
Helen Vendler, Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor
Other Faculty Offering Instruction in the History and Literature Program
W. Nathan Alexander, Instructor in History and Literature
Ala A. Alryyes, Lecturer on History and Literature
Caroline D. Alyea, Lecturer on History and Literature
Clara (Pleun) Bouricius, Lecturer on History and Literature
David Lee Brandenberger, Lecturer on History and Literature
Jeffrey Randall Collins, Lecturer on History
Alan Ralph Cooper, Lecturer on History and Literature
Barbara M. Corbett, Lecturer on History and Literature
Neal L. Dolan, Lecturer on History and Literature
Erika Dreifus, Lecturer on History and Literature
Carlos Ramiro Espinosa, Lecturer on History and Literature
Jonathan Andrew Fortescue, Instructor in History and Literature
Andrew J. Furer, Lecturer on History and Literature
Melinda G. Gray, Lecturer on History and Literature
Steven J. Holmes, Lecturer on History and Literature
Christoph Irmscher, Lecturer on History and Literature
Daniel Itzkovitz, Lecturer on History and Literature
Dirk Killen, Lecturer on History and Literature
Stephanie Susan LeMenager, Lecturer in History and Literature
Camille Lizarribar, Lecturer on History and Literature
Anne Lynn Lounsbery, Lecturer in History and Literature
Patricia C. Lynch, Lecturer on History and Literature
Matthew William Maguire, Lecturer in History and Literature
Timothy Alan Milford, Lecturer on History and Literature
Mark Christopher Molesky, Instructor in History and Literature
Martha Jane Nadell, Head Teaching Assistant in Afro-American Studies
Adam R. Nelson, Lecturer on History and Literature
Elisabeth B. Nichols, Lecturer on History
John Timothy O’Keefe, Lecturer in History and Literature
William Albert Pannapacker, Lecturer on History and Literature
Lillian Paula Porten, Lecturer on Literature
Alex Sagan, Lecturer on History and Literature
Nathaniel Taylor, Lecturer on History and Literature
William Conrad Weitzel, Lecturer in History and Literature
Abby Wolf, Lecturer on English and American Literature and Language, Lecturer on History and Literature
Primarily for Undergraduates
*History and Literature 91r. Supervised Reading and Research
Catalog Number: 0334
Steven H. Biel and members of the Committee
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Hours to be arranged.
The study of selected topics in history and literature.
Note: Permission of the Director of Studies required. In addition to individually supervised reading and research, History and Literature offers small group courses on selected topics. These may be open to qualified freshmen or nonconcentrators with the permission of the instructor. These courses are posted in the History and Literature office.
*History and Literature 97. Tutorial — Sophomore Year
Catalog Number: 4177
Steven H. Biel and members of the Committee
Full course. Hours to be arranged.
Note: Ordinarily taken by honors sophomores as a full course. Nonconcentrators wishing to take a half or full year of the Middle Ages, Europe from c. 1300 to c. 1750, Britain, Russia, Germany, Latin America, or France sophomore tutorials may do so with the permission of the Director of Studies. To take one semester only, a divide with credit petition must be filed. This is an opportunity for freshmen and others who would like the benefit of the course without committing to the concentration.
*History and Literature 98r. Tutorial — Junior Year
Catalog Number: 2766
Steven H. Biel and members of the Committee
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Note: Ordinarily taken as two half courses by honors juniors. Required of all concentrators.
*History and Literature 99. Tutorial — Senior Year
Catalog Number: 5362
Steven H. Biel and members of the Committee
Full course. Hours to be arranged.
Note: Ordinarily taken by honors seniors as a full course. Required of all concentrators.
A list of the courses in other departments that count for History and Literature is available in our office at the Barker Center and at www.fas.harvard.edu/~histlit.