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Martin Puchner, the Byron and Anita Wien Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University, is a prize-winning author, educator, public speaker, and institution builder in the arts and humanities. His writings range from philosophy and theater to culture and technology and have been translated into many languages. Through his bestselling six-volume Norton Anthology of World Literature and HarvardX MOOC (massive open online course) have brought four thousand years of literature to students across the globe. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Professor Puchner's presentation will include topics contained in his 2018 book, The Written Word, which has been widely reviewed in the New York Times, The Times (London), the Financial Times, The Times Literary Supplement, The Atlantic, and The Economist, among others, covered on radio and television and has been translated into over twenty languages. It appeared on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list and received the Massachusetts Book Award. Updating this content with additional examples and thoughts, Puchner will show us how literature turned our planet into a written world.
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