Stephen Greenblatt

Biography

Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author of twelve books, including The Swerve: How the World Became Modern; Shakespeare's Freedom; Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare; Hamlet in Purgatory; Marvelous Possessions; and Renaissance Self-Fashioning. He is General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and of The Norton Shakespeare, has edited seven collections of criticism, and is a founding editor of the journal Representations.

Areas of expertise:

• Shakespeare
• Early Modern Literature and Culture
• Literature of Travel and Exploration
• Religion and Literature
• Literature and Anthropology
• Literary and Cultural Theory