20 Facts About Stephen Greenblatt

Stephen Jay Greenblatt was born on November 7,1943 and is an American Shakespearean, literary historian, and author.

Stephen Greenblatt has served as the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University since 2000.

Stephen Greenblatt is one of the founders of new historicism, a set of critical practices that he often refers to as "cultural poetics"; his works have been influential since the early 1980s when he introduced the term.

Stephen Greenblatt has written and edited numerous books and articles relevant to new historicism, the study of culture, Renaissance studies and Shakespeare studies and is considered to be an expert in these fields.

Stephen Greenblatt is co-founder of the literary-cultural journal Representations, which often publishes articles by new historicists.

Stephen Greenblatt won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 2012 and the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2011 for The Swerve: How the World Became Modern.

Stephen Greenblatt was born in Boston and raised in Newton, Massachusetts.

Stephen Greenblatt has since taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard University.

Stephen Greenblatt was Class of 1972 Professor at Berkeley and taught there for 28 years before taking a position at Harvard University.

Stephen Greenblatt was named John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities in 2000.

Stephen Greenblatt is the founder and faculty co-chair of Harvard's branch of the Scholars at Risk program.

Stephen Greenblatt was a long-term fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin.

Stephen Greenblatt was a resident fellow at the American Academy in Rome, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters ; he has been president of the Modern Language Association.

Stephen Greenblatt is an Eastern European Jew, an Ashkenazi, and a Litvak.

Stephen Greenblatt's observant Jewish grandparents were born in Lithuania; his paternal grandparents were from Kaunas and his maternal grandparents were from Vilnius.

Stephen Greenblatt's grandparents immigrated to the United States during the early 1890s in order to escape a Czarist Russification plan to conscript young Jewish men into the Russian army.

Stephen Greenblatt has written extensively on Shakespeare, the Renaissance, culture and New Historicism.

Stephen Greenblatt has written on such subjects as travelling in Laos and China, story-telling, and miracles.

Stephen Greenblatt wrote his 2018 book Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics out of anxiety over the result of the 2016 US presidential election.

Stephen Greenblatt is a general editor of the Norton Shakespeare.