People

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

Tad Davies (Ph.D., English from University of California, Irvine)
vdavies@fas.harvard.edu
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)

rossmartin@fas.harvard.edu

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)

keatingmckeon@fas.harvard.edu

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)

eraymer@fas.harvard.edu

Research and Writing Interests: the modern life and environmental sciences, evolutionary theory, intellectual and cultural history, the philosophy of science

 

Sparsha Saha (Ph.D., Government, Harvard University)
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)

john_sampson@fas.harvard.edu

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)

ian_shank@fas.harvard.edu

Research and Writing Interests: Nonfiction, autofiction, satire, and cultural criticism

 

Kristen Starkowski (Ph.D., English, Princeton University)

kstarkowski@fas.harvard.edu

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)

tlstrauss@fas.harvard.edu

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