Committee on Degrees in History and Literature at Harvard

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• NAME: Phoebe Putnam (Starting in History and Literature in September 2008)
• FIELD IN HISTORY AND LITERATURE: America, Modern Europe (Britain)
• GRADUATE DEPARTMENT OF Ph.D. AND GRANTING INSTITUTION: Comparative Literature, Harvard University
• AREAS OF INTEREST:
  
  research areas:
  • literature & visual culture
  • literature & the applied and fine arts
  • history & literature of science
  • genre studies (evolution of; innovations in; cultural status of)
  • history & literature of travel, tourism & transportation
  genres:
  • poetry & poetics
  • autobiography, memoir, letters & the essay
  • “how-to” texts; practical-guidance texts (e.g. cooking, carpentry, writing)
• DISSERTATION TOPIC OR TITLE: Land Lies in Water: Panoramic Perspectives in Lyric Poetry, 1859-1969
• E-MAIL ADDRESS: pputnam@fas
• OFFICE: Barker 051
• OFFICE PHONE: 495-3463
• HOME PHONE: 617.642.6347

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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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