Elisa New
{{Short description|American academic}}{{Infobox academic
| name = Elisa New
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1958}}
| birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
| education = Brandeis University (BA)
Columbia University (MA, PhD)
| spouse = {{plainlist|
- Fred David Levine (divorced; died 2013)
- {{marriage|Lawrence Summers|2005}}
}}
| children = 3
| workplaces = Harvard University
University of Pennsylvania
| discipline = English literature
| sub_discipline = American literature
American poetry
}}
Elisa New (born 1958) is an American academic who is the Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University.
Early life and education
She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised in Maryland.[http://www.jacobscane.org/html/ElisaNew/elisanew.html Bio Elisa New, author Jacob's Cane] New's father was an engineer and computer scientist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and her mother worked as a party planner. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brandeis University (1980), as well as a Master of Arts and PhD from Columbia University (1982 and 1988, respectively).
Career
New's academic specialties include American poetry, American literature, religion in literature, and Jewish literature.{{Cite web |title=Harvard English Department faculty profile. |url=http://english.fas.harvard.edu/faculty/new/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180929095815/https://english.fas.harvard.edu/faculty/new/ |archive-date=2018-09-29 |access-date=2013-12-21}} Before moving to Harvard, she taught at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the creator and host of the television show Poetry in America.{{Cite web |author=BWW News Desk |title=Star Studded New Public Television Series POETRY IN AMERICA Launches In Time For National Poetry Month |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/Star-Studded-New-Public-Television-Series-POETRY-IN-AMERICA-Launches-In-Time-For-National-Poetry-Month-20180306 |accessdate=2018-05-15}} In May 2023, the Wall Street Journal reported that a nonprofit linked to New had received more than $100,000 from Jeffrey Epstein.{{Cite news |last= |first= |last2= |first2= |date=2023-05-03 |title=Jeffrey Epstein Documents, Part 2: Dinners With Lawrence Summers and Movie Screenings With Woody Allen |language=en-US |work=Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/jeffrey-epstein-documents-woody-allen-larry-summers-edb3e9b2 |access-date=2023-06-13 |issn=0099-9660}}
Personal life
She had three daughters with her first husband, Fred David Levine, who died in 2013. Before moving to Boston, Massachusetts, the family resided in Miami, Florida.
On December 11, 2005, she married economist Lawrence Summers.{{Cite news |date=2005-12-11 |title=Elisa New and Lawrence Summers |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/fashion/weddings/elisa-new-and-lawrence-summers.html |access-date=2022-08-17 |issn=0362-4331}}
Selected works
- {{cite book |title=The Regenerate Lyric: Theology and Innovation in American Poetry |year=1993 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-43021-0 }}
- {{cite book |title=The Line's Eye: Poetic Experience, American Sight |year=1999 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-53462-9 }}
- {{cite book |title=Jacob's Cane: A Jewish Family's Journey from the Four lands of Lithuania to the Ports of Baltimore and London |year=2009 |publisher=Basic Books |isbn=978-0-465-01525-2 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/jacobscanejewish0000newe }}
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Category:Brandeis University alumni
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Category:Harvard Extension School faculty
Category:Columbia University alumni
Category:University of Pennsylvania faculty
Category:Jewish American social scientists
Category:American academics of English literature
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