Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University where he has taught since 1998. Previously, from 1969, he was the Class of 1932 Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author and editor of many books, including Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare and The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, as well as the General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and The Norton Shakespeare. Among his honors and awards are the Holberg Prize from the Norwegian Parliament, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Mellon Distinguished Humanist Award, the Sapegno Prize, the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre, the Erasmus Institute Prize, the Wilber Cross Medal, the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California, Berkeley, the James Russell Lowell Prize (twice), and the Guggenheim Fellowship (twice), along with four honorary doctorates. He served as President of the Modern Language Association of America and as a trustee of the American Academy in Rome and the Marlboro Music Festival. He has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Letters, the American Philosophical Society, the British Academy, and the Accademia dell’Arcadia.
