#  Stephanie Burt 

Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English

(On leave spring 2025) 

 

 

 



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 location\_on Office: Barker 270 

 smartphone [617-496-0285](tel:617-496-0285) 

 email <burt@fas.harvard.edu> 

M 11am-noon, W 3-4pm, and F noon-1:30pm as well as by appointment.

 

 



 

Education: B.A., Harvard (1994)  
Ph.D., Yale (2000)

Interests: Poetry, especially 20th and 21st centuries; science fiction; literature and geography; contemporary writing; comics and graphic novels; literature alongside other arts.

Selected Works:  
[We are Mermaids (2022)](https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/we-are-mermaids); Advice from the Lights (2017); The Poem Is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them (2016); Belmont Poems (2013); Close Calls With Nonsense: Reading New Poetry (2008); The Forms of Youth: Adolescence and 20th-Century Poetry (2007); Parallel Play (2006); editor, Randall Jarrell on W. H. Auden (2005); “‘September 1, 1939 Revisited’ or, Poetry, Politics, and the Idea of the Public” (2003); Randall Jarrell and His Age (2002); Popular Music (1999).

Podcast: [Team-up Moves](https://teamupmoves.com/)



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Specialty
    
     [BGLTQ Studies](/specialty/bgltq-studies) [English](/specialty/english)