Leah Price

Leah Price is a professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University, where her specialties are in the novel, literary journalism, the history of books and reading, and narrative theory, as well as on the culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth-centuries and British fiction in the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries. Price's best known publication is the book, "The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel", and is editor of "Literary Secretaries/Secretarial Culture".

Price is also known for being granted tenure by Harvard under the unusual circumstances of her relatively young age, with only one published book, as well as the tendency of Harvard not to promote its junior faculty. It has been speculated that Price was the beneficiary of Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers' request to departments to identify younger faculty deserving of tenure, especially those who are likely to produce their most important work in the future. [http://www-tech.mit.edu/V124/N7/7BGHarvard.7n.html] , [http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=254167]

Biography

Price graduated "summa cum laude" from Harvard College in 1991 with an A.B. from the Department of Comparative Literature. She was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was recognized with a Hoopes Prize for her thesis “Lery and Cervantes.” [http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~lprice/cv%5B1%5D.pdf.htm.pdf]

During 1991-2, she was an August Clifford Tower Fellow, "Bourse de recheres" at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales at the Ecole Normale Superieure in France. In 1995 she received her M.Phil in Comparative Literature at Yale University, and completed her Ph.D. in the same program in 1998. From 1997-2000, Price was a Carlisle Research Fellow in English Literature at Girton College at the University of Cambridge. From 2000-2002, she was an Assistant Professor in the department of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University, where she was granted tenure as a full professor after two years in November 2002, the first female (and the second person in a dozen years) to be promoted from within the department, at the age of 32. Harvard's tenure offer reportedly followed immediately after a full tenure offer from the rival department at UCLA. [http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=254167]

ee also

*Comparative literature
*Deconstruction
*Novel

Publications

* Price, L. (2003). "The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel". Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-53939-0

External links

* [http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~lprice/ Harvard FAS] Price's official page, includes CV.
* [http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=254167 Harvard Crimson] article on promotion
* [http://www-tech.mit.edu/V124/N7/7BGHarvard.7n.html Boston Globe] article on promotion