Elisa New, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, Harvard University
New will trace the impact of literature on the development of spirituality, community, and culture in America and examine the place and impression of literature in our nation's intellectual history and the lives of its readers.
Professor New's participation in this series is supported by the Harvard Club of Eastern New York.
Free admission
This lecture series, America in the Late Eighteenth Century, is supported through a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities and a grant from the Lamplighter Foundation.