Leah Price (born October 6, 1970) is an American literary critic who specializes in the

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and in the

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. She is Henry Rutgers Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was ...

and founding director of th
Rutgers Initiative for the Book
Prior to moving to Rutgers, Price was Professor of

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and

American Literature American literature is literature written or produced in the United States of America and in the colonies that preceded it. The American literary tradition thus is part of the broader tradition of English-language literature, but also inc ...

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of highe ...

, where at the age of 31 she became one of the youngest assistant professors ever to be promoted to

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at Harvard. She has written essays on old and

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for

The New York Times Book Review ''The New York Times Book Review'' (''NYTBR'') is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to the Sunday edition of ''The New York Times'' in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed. It is one of the most influential and widely rea ...

London Review of Books The ''London Review of Books'' (''LRB'') is a British literary magazine published twice monthly that features articles and essays on fiction and non-fiction subjects, which are usually structured as book reviews. History The ''London Review o ...

The Paris Review ''The Paris Review'' is a quarterly English-language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. In its first five years, ''The Paris Review'' published works by Jack Kerouac, Phi ...

, and

The Boston Globe ''The Boston Globe'' is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes, and has a total circulation of close to 300,000 print and digital subscribers. ''The Boston Glob ...

Education

Price completed her undergraduate studies at

, graduating

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in 1991 with an A.B. in Literature. She was elected to

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and received a Hoopes Prize for her A.B. thesis. In 1998, she earned her Ph.D. in

Comparative Literature Comparative literature is an academic field dealing with the study of literature and cultural expression across linguistic, national, geographic, and disciplinary boundaries. Comparative literature "performs a role similar to that of the study ...

from

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the w ...

. From 1997–2000 Price was a Research Fellow in English Literature at

Girton College Girton College is one of the Colleges of the University of Cambridge, 31 constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge. The college was established in 1869 by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon as the first women's college in Cambridge. In 1 ...

Cambridge University , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

Selected works

''The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel''
(Cambridge University Press, 2000) *
Literary Secretaries/Secretarial Culture
' with Pamela Thurschwell (Routledge, 2005)
''Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books''
(Yale University Press, 2011)

(Princeton University Press, 2012) *
What We Talk About When We Talks About Books: The History and Future of Reading
' (Basic Books, 2019)

Personal life

Price is married to Rutgers bioethicist Nir M. Eyal, and they have one son and live in

Princeton, New Jersey Princeton is a municipality with a borough form of government in Mercer County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It was established on January 1, 2013, through the consolidation of the Borough of Princeton and Princeton Township, both of w ...

. Price is since 2012 a member of

Giving What We Can Giving What We Can (GWWC) is an effective altruism-associated organisation whose members pledge to give at least 10% of their income to effective charities. It was founded at Oxford University in 2009 by the philosopher Toby Ord, physician-in- ...

, a community of people who have pledged to give at least 10% of their income to effective charities.

References

External links

*Rutgers Initiative for Book, Director's Pag

*Public Books, Editor Profil

*Twitter fee

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Education

Selected works

Personal life

See also

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