Martin Puchner

Martin Puchner is the Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University and is the 2020 Visiting Professor for the TORCH/Princeton University Press Lecture Series in European History and Culture He is the founding director of the Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research at Harvard University. In 2017, he won a Guggenheim Fellowship and is currently a Cullman fellow at the New York Public Library. His publications include:  The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate (2020); The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization (2017); Gen. ed., The Norton Anthology of World Literature (2012); The Drama of Ideas (2010); co-ed., The Norton Anthology of Drama (2009); ed., Modern Drama: Critical Concepts (2008).