Leah Price | |
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Born | Leah Price October 6, 1970 |
Spouse | Nir Eyal (bioethicist) |
Children | 1 |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Yale University; Girton College, Cambridge University |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Harvard University,Rutgers University |
Main interests | British novel |
Leah Price (born October 6,1970) is an American literary critic who specializes in the British novel and in the history of the book. She is Henry Rutgers Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at Rutgers University and founding director of the Rutgers Initiative for the Book. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Prior to moving to Rutgers,Price was Professor of English and American Literature at Harvard University,where at the age of 31 she became one of the youngest assistant professors ever to be promoted to tenure at Harvard. [6] She has written essays on old and new media for The New York Times Book Review,London Review of Books,The Paris Review,and The Boston Globe. [7] [8]
Price completed her undergraduate studies at Harvard University,graduating summa cum laude in 1991 with an A.B. in Literature. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and received a Hoopes Prize for her A.B. thesis. [9]
In 1998,she earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University. From 1997–2000 Price was a Research Fellow in English Literature at Girton College,Cambridge University. [6] [10]
Price is married to Rutgers bioethicist Nir M. Eyal, and they have one daughter and live in Princeton, New Jersey.
Price is since 2012 a member of Giving What We Can, a community of people who have pledged to give at least 10% of their income to effective charities. [11]
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