Harvard Club of New Hampshire

Harvard Club of New Hampshire Faculty Speaker Zoom Event!

Professor Martin Puchner, Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature

Mark your calendar now, and plan to join with fellow Harvard alumni for a very special virtual event!

Date & Time: Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 4:00-5:30 pm

This event is free! No travel required.

Our Speaker: Martin Puchner is a literary critic and philosopher. He studied at Konstanz University, the University of Bologna, and the University of California, Santa Barbara, before receiving his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1998. He now holds the Byron and Anita Wien Chair of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is the founding director of the Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research at Harvard University.

Martin’s recent work focused on large-scale projects in literature, technology, and cultural history.

The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization is a sweeping account of literature from the invention of writing to the Internet
The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate interweaves family history with an account of the underground language of central Europe called Rotwelsch
Literature for a Changing Language has been called "a stirring manifesto” and calls for a new approach to storytelling in an era of climate change
Culture: The Story of Us, from Cave Art to K-pop takes a breakneck tour through pivotal moments in world history, providing a global introduction to the arts and humanities in one engaging volume.

Questions for Our Speaker: After Professor Puchner’s talk, please submit questions on Zoom chat.