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 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 Interest**s: 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 &amp; 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](mailto: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](mailto: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