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• NAME: Steven Biel
• FIELD IN HISTORY AND LITERATURE: America
• Ph.D.: History (Harvard)
• AREAS OF INTEREST:
  • Cultural and intellectual history
  • Social criticism and protest
  • Cultures of the Cold War
  • 1920s and 1930s
  • Gender and sexuality
  • Popular culture
• BOOKS:
  • Independent Intellectuals in the United States, 1910-1945 (NYU Press, 1992)
  • Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster (Norton, 1996)
  • Titanica: The Disaster of the Century in Poetry, Song and Prose (Norton, 1998)
  • American Disasters (NYU Press, 2001)
  • American Gothic: A Life of America's Most Famous Painting (Norton, 2005)
• E-MAIL ADDRESS: biel@fas
• OFFICE: Barker 129
• OFFICE PHONE: 495-4858

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• Barker Center 122, Cambridge, MA 02138
• Phone: (617) 495-4029 | Fax: (617) 496-5605 | Email: histlit@fas.harvard.edu

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