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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. She had three daughters (Yael, Orli, and Maya) with her first husband.

On December 11, 2005, Elisa New married Lawrence Summers who became her second husband. [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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