The Harvard Writing Project is staffed by faculty members of the Harvard College Writing Program.
DIRECTOR
James Herron, Director of the Harvard Writing Project (Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Michigan)
jherron@fas.harvard.edu
Fields: Cultural and linguistic anthropology, Latin America, Andes
FACULTY ASSOCIATES
Research and Writing Interests: political novels, history and theory of the novel, American studies
Jonah Johnson (Ph.D., German and Comparative Literatures, University of Michigan)
jmjohns@fas.harvard.edu
Research and Writing Interests: Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment German literature and philosophy , lyric, genre theory, reception of classical antiquity
Taleen Mardirossian (M.F.A., Creative Writing, Columbia University)
taleenmardirossian@fas.harvard.edu
Research and Writing Interests: Histories of violence, human rights, race, memory, gender, identity
Ross Martin (Ph.D., English Language and Literature, University of Michigan)
Research and Writing Interests: early and antebellum American literature and culture; nineteenth-century science, philosophy, and law
Richard Joseph Martin (Ph.D., Anthropology, Princeton University)
rmartin01@fas.harvard.edu
Research and Writing Interests: agency, education, ethnography, magic, phenomenology, play, popular culture, privacy, queer theory, ritual, semiotics, sexuality, and space
Keating McKeon (Ph.D., Classical Philology, Harvard University)
Research and Writing Interests: autocracy, quotation, sports culture, Achaemenid Persia, Greek & Roman historiography, Attic tragedy
Emilie J. Raymer (Ph.D., The History of Science, Johns Hopkins University)
Research and Writing Interests: the modern life and environmental sciences, evolutionary theory, intellectual and cultural history, the philosophy of science
saha@fas.harvard.edu
Research and Writing Interests: International relations, women and politics, political psychology, group-based violence, survey experiments
John Sampson (Ph.D., English, Johns Hopkins University)
Research and Writing Interests: Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature and culture; urban history; composition and writing center studies.
Ian Shank (MFA, Creative Writing, University of Iowa)
Research and Writing Interests: Nonfiction, autofiction, satire, and cultural criticism
Kristen Starkowski (Ph.D., English, Princeton University)
Research and Writing Interests: nineteenth-century British literature, disability studies, penny fiction, digital humanities, writing pedagogy, writing in STEM
Tracy Strauss (M.F.A., Film, Boston University; and M.F.A. Creative Writing, Lesley University)
Research and Writing Interests: trauma literature and film, the bildungsroman, prose and poetry of war, screenplay as dramatic literature, literary adaptations, public humanities
Elliott Turley (Ph.D., English, the University of Texas at Austin)
Research and Writing Interests: drama, performance, history: theatre history, history of philosophy, African American history and literature, literary theory, continental philosophy, genre studies, tragedy, humor, myth, adaptation, film