History and Literature
Members of the Steering Committee on Degrees in History and Literature
Stephen J. Greenblatt, John Cogan University Professor (Chair)
Steven H. Biel, Lecturer on History and Literature (Director of Studies)
Ann M. Blair, Professor of History ( )
Lawrence Buell, Harvard College Professor and the John P. Marquand Professor of English (on leave spring term)
Lizabeth Cohen, Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies (on leave 2001-02)
Daniel G. Donoghue, Professor of English and American Literature and Language
James Engell, Gurney Professor of English Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature
Ruth Feldstein, Associate Professor of History and of History and Literature (on leave 2001-02)
Lynn Mary Festa, Assistant Professor of English and American Literature and Language
Virginie Greene, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of History and Literature ( )
Yunte Huang, Assistant Professor of English and American Literature and Language (on leave spring term)
Robert Kiely, Harvard College Professor and the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English (on leave spring term)
James T. Kloppenberg, Professor of History
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
Leah Price, Assistant Professor of English and American Literature and Language (on leave 2002-03)
Doris Sommer, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (on leave 2001-02)
John Stauffer, Associate Professor of English and American Literature and Language and of History and Literature
Judith Surkis, Assistant Professor of History and of History and Literature
Alfred Thomas, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, John L Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard College Professor and the James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History
Affiliated Members of the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature
David D. Hall, Professor of American Religious History on the Bartlett and the Emerson Fund for Unitarian Universalist Studies (Divinity School)
Helen Vendler, Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor (on leave spring term)
Other Faculty Offering Instruction in the History and Literature Program
Christine Edwards Allred, Assistant Senior Tutor in Pforzheimer House, Preceptor in Expository Writing
Kriss Richard Basil, Instructor in History and Literature
David Lee Brandenberger, Lecturer on History and Literature
Rory A. W. Browne, Lecturer on History and Literature
Alide Cagidemetrio, ( )
Barbara M. Corbett, Lecturer on History and Literature
Julie E. Desjardins, Lecturer on History and Literature
Katerina Dianina, Instructor in History and Literature, Tutor in Currier House
Neal L. Dolan, Lecturer on History and Literature, Lecturer on History Literature
Charitini Douvaldzi, Instructor in History and Literature
Erika Dreifus, Lecturer on History and Literature
Dan Eshet, Lecturer on History and Literature
Carlos Ramiro Espinosa, Lecturer on History and Literature
Victor J. Figueroa, Lecturer on History and Literature
Karen Pomeroy Flood, Lecturer on History and Literature
Jonathan Andrew Fortescue, Lecturer on History and Literature
Karen Isabelle Halil
Benjamin Carter Hett, Instructor in History and Literature, Lecturer on History and Literature
Ann S. Holder, Lecturer on History and Literature
Jeffrey Guy Johnson, Lecturer on History and Literature, Lecturer on History & Literature
Philip Joseph, Lecturer on History and Literature
Stephen Haviland Kargere, Lecturer on History and Literature
Matthew Lazen, Lecturer on History and Literature, Teaching Assistant in Visual and Environmental Studies
David A. Long, Lecturer on History and Literature, Lecturer on Histoy and Literature
Peter G. Lurie, Lecturer on History and Literature
Matthew William Maguire, Lecturer on History and Literature
Hans Mateo-Silva, Lecturer on History and Literature
Mark Christopher Molesky, Lecturer on History and Literature
Martha Jane Nadell, Lecturer on History and Literature, Head Teaching Assistant in Afro-American Studies
Rebecca R. Noel, Lecturer on History and Literature
John Timothy O’Keefe, Lecturer on History and Literature
Annette Gertraude Pein, Lecturer on History and Literature
Marshall T. Poe, Lecturer on History and Literature, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Lowell House
Lillian Paula Porten, Preceptor in Expository Writing
Lloyd P. Pratt, Lecturer on History and Literature
Jeanne Follansbee Quinn, Lecturer on History and Literature
Augusta Rohrbach, Preceptor in Expository Writing
Julia B. Rosenbaum,
Andrew P. Scheil, Lecturer on History and Literature
Naomi Z. Sofer, Lecturer on History and Literature
Sharon Braslaw Sundue, Lecturer on History and Literature
Toni Turano, Lecturer on History and Literature
Swen A. Voekel, Lecturer on History and Literature
Andrea L. Volpe, Lecturer on History and Literature
Esther Katheryn Whitfield, Lecturer on History and Literature, Lecturer on History and Literature/Core
James Wilkinson, Lecturer on History and Literature
Abby Wolf, Lecturer on History and Literature
Andrea Patricia Zemgulys, 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. Fall: W., 3–5; Spring: W., 3–5; M., 1–3; Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
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.