Committee on Degrees in History and Literature at Harvard

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• NAME: Sharon Louise Howell
• FIELD IN HISTORY AND LITERATURE: America, Modern Europe (Britain)
• Ph.D., Harvard University (English and American Literature and Language)
• AREAS OF INTEREST:
  • American and British Modernism in context of World Wars (Virginia Woolf, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, Marianne Moore)
  • The Modernist moment across media (visual art, film, poetry, fiction)
  • Contemporary American Poetry
  • American Renaissance/New England writers (Thoreau, Melville, Whitman, Emerson, Hawthorne, Stowe) in dialogue and in context of Civil War Era
  • Irish Literature, especially Yeats and Joyce, in context of Irish History
  • The Long Poem
  • Mixtures of Poetry and Prose; Prose Poetry (Williams, Ashbery, Anne Carson, Charles Simic)
  • Experimental poetics and forms, dialogics (John Berryman, David Antin, David Jones, A.R. Ammons, Frank Bidart)
• DISSERTATION: "Everyday Mixtures: American Mixed Form"
• E-MAIL ADDRESS: slhowell@fas
• OFFICE: Allston Burr Resident Dean's Office, Adams House
• OFFICE PHONE: 617-495-2260
• HOME PHONE: (cell) 857-998-8069; 617-493-2138
• HARVARD HOUSE AFFILIATION: Adams House

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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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