After serving as a longstanding member of Harvard’s Office of the General Counsel for 27 years, I retired in October 2024. In my earlier life I earned a Ph.D. in English from Rutgers University, where I also served as Managing Editor of Rutgers...
A graduate of Yale (BA) and Harvard (PhD), I'm now a professor in the English department, where I teach courses on US literature and on the contemporary novel. I'm currently writing a work of narrative non-fiction, which tells the story of the Union...
I write about the 19th and 20th centuries, generally trying to understand the connections between culture, society, and experience. Growing up in Argentina has given me a sense of the resilience of peoples and cultures that manage to outlive the conflict...