Elisa New | |
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Born | 1958 (age 66–67) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
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Children | 3 |
Academic background | |
Education | Brandeis University (BA) Columbia University (MA, PhD) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | English literature |
Sub-discipline | American literature American poetry |
Institutions | Harvard University University of Pennsylvania |
Elisa New (born 1958) is an American academic who is the Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University.
She was born in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,and raised in Maryland. [1] New's father was an engineer and computer scientist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and her mother worked as a party planner. [2] She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brandeis University (1980),as well as a Master of Arts and PhD from Columbia University (1982 and 1988,respectively).
New's academic specialties include American poetry,American literature,religion in literature,and Jewish literature. [3] Before moving to Harvard,she taught at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the creator and host of the television show Poetry in America . [4] In May 2023,the Wall Street Journal reported that a nonprofit linked to New had received more than $100,000 from Jeffrey Epstein. [5]
She had three daughters with her first husband,Fred David Levine,who died in 2013. Before moving to Boston,Massachusetts,the family resided in Miami,Florida.
On December 11,2005,she married economist Lawrence Summers. [2]