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Elisa New is a Professor of English at Harvard University. She holds a B.A. from Brandeis University (1980), as well as a M.A. and a Ph.D from Columbia University (1982 and 1988, respectively). Her interests include American poetry, American Literature-1900, Religion and Literature, and Jewish literature. [1] Before moving to Harvard, she taught at the University of Pennsylvania.

On December 11, 2005, Elisa New married Lawrence Summers, former United States Secretary of the Treasury to President Bill Clinton and the then president of Harvard University. [2]

Selected works
  • The Regenerate Lyric: Theology and Innovation in American Poetry. Cambridge University Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0521430210.
  • The Line's Eye: Poetic Experience, American Sight. Harvard University Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0674534629.

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