Stephen Greenblatt
Born in 1943
History
Literary Criticism
Stephen Jay Greenblatt is a renowned American literary critic, theorist, and scholar.
He is a Harvard University professor and General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature.
Greenblatt is considered a founder of New Historicism, which he calls "cultural poetics." He has authored numerous influential books on Renaissance studies and Shakespeare, including the bestseller "Will in the World." Greenblatt has received prestigious awards, including the Pulitzer Prize and the MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize.
He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
Greenblatt co-founded the literary-cultural journal Representations and has written a play called Cardenio.
