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Elisa New
Professor of English, Harvard University
Elisa New is the director and host of Poetry in America, director of Verse Video Education, and the Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at
Harvard University, where she teaches courses in classic American literature
from the Puritans through the present day.
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Our live stream with Harvard literature professor Lisa New begins at 1 pm ET today.
6 min
Harvard Professor Lisa New describes how Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of Seven Gables speaks to classic American responses to economic crisis.