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'''Leah Price''' (born October 6, 1970) is an American literary critic who specializes in the [[English novel|British novel]] and in the [[History of books|history of the book]]. She is [[Henry Rutgers]] Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at [[Rutgers University]] and founding director of the [https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative/ Rutgers Initiative for the Book].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative/people/leah-price/|title=Leah Price – Initiative for the Book|website=sites.rutgers.edu|access-date=2020-02-25}}</ref><ref>[https://harvardmagazine.com/2012/11/the-best-of-bestowing Brown NP. The best of bestowing: the 'gifts you can keep unwrapping'. November-December 2012. Harvard Magazine: New England regional/explorations.]</ref><ref>[https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-22/focus-distraction-digital-mobile-phone-reading-writing/12054712 Reich H. How to focus when your mobile phone is distracting you from reading or writing. ABC Arts. The Book Show. Saturday Saturday 21 March 2020 at 4:53pm]</ref><ref>[https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative/people/ Leah Price. Rutgers Initiative for the Book. Rutgers University]</ref><ref>[https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative/people/leah-price/ Leah Price. Rutgers University] |
'''Leah Price''' (born October 6, 1970) is an American literary critic who specializes in the [[English novel|British novel]] and in the [[History of books|history of the book]]. She is [[Henry Rutgers]] Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at [[Rutgers University]] and founding director of the [https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative/ Rutgers Initiative for the Book].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative/people/leah-price/|title=Leah Price – Initiative for the Book|website=sites.rutgers.edu|access-date=2020-02-25}}</ref><ref>[https://harvardmagazine.com/2012/11/the-best-of-bestowing Brown NP. The best of bestowing: the 'gifts you can keep unwrapping'. November-December 2012. Harvard Magazine: New England regional/explorations.]</ref><ref>[https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-22/focus-distraction-digital-mobile-phone-reading-writing/12054712 Reich H. How to focus when your mobile phone is distracting you from reading or writing. ABC Arts. The Book Show. Saturday Saturday 21 March 2020 at 4:53pm]</ref><ref>[https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative/people/ Leah Price. Rutgers Initiative for the Book. Rutgers University]</ref><ref>[https://sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative/people/leah-price/ Leah Price. Rutgers University]</ref> She has written essays on old and [[new media]] for [[The New York Times Book Review]], [[London Review of Books]], [[The Paris Review]], and [[The Boston Globe]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.edx.org/bio/leah-price|title=Leah Price|website=edX|language=en|access-date=2020-02-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/09/17/books-wont-die/|title=Books Won't Die|last=Price|first=Leah|date=2019-09-17|website=The Paris Review|language=en|access-date=2020-02-26}}</ref> |
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== Education == |
== Education and career == |
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Price completed her undergraduate studies at [[Harvard University]], graduating [[Latin honors|summa cum laude]] in 1991 with an A.B. in Literature. She was elected to [[Phi Beta Kappa]] and received a Hoopes Prize for her A.B. thesis.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2002/9/23/university-grants-young-female-star-unusual/|title=University Grants Young Female Star Unusual Tenure {{!}} News {{!}} The Harvard Crimson|website=www.thecrimson.com|access-date=2020-02-26}}</ref> |
Price completed her undergraduate studies at [[Harvard University]], graduating [[Latin honors|summa cum laude]] in 1991 with an A.B. in Literature. She was elected to [[Phi Beta Kappa]] and received a Hoopes Prize for her A.B. thesis.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2002/9/23/university-grants-young-female-star-unusual/|title=University Grants Young Female Star Unusual Tenure {{!}} News {{!}} The Harvard Crimson|website=www.thecrimson.com|access-date=2020-02-26}}</ref> |
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In 1998, she earned her Ph.D. in [[Comparative literature|Comparative Literature]] from [[Yale University]]. From 1997–2000 Price was a Research Fellow in English Literature at [[Girton College, Cambridge|Girton College]], [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge University]].<ref name=":0" /> <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://english.rutgers.edu/cb-profile/fieldclass.html?field=cb_curriculumvitae&function=download&user=359&reason=profile|title=Price CV|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> |
In 1998, she earned her Ph.D. in [[Comparative literature|Comparative Literature]] from [[Yale University]]. From 1997–2000 Price was a Research Fellow in English Literature at [[Girton College, Cambridge|Girton College]], [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge University]].<ref name=":0" /> <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://english.rutgers.edu/cb-profile/fieldclass.html?field=cb_curriculumvitae&function=download&user=359&reason=profile|title=Price CV|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> |
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In 2000 Price was appointed Professor of [[English literature|English]] and [[American literature|American Literature]] at [[Harvard University]], where at the age of 31 she became one of the youngest assistant professors ever to be promoted to [[tenure (academic)|tenure]] at Harvard.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2002/9/23/university-grants-young-female-star-unusual/|title=University Grants Young Female Star Unusual Tenure {{!}} News {{!}} The Harvard Crimson|website=www.thecrimson.com|access-date=2020-02-25}}</ref> |
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In 2019 she was appointed as Henry Rutgers Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at Rutgers University and founding director of the Rutgers Initiative for the Book. |
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She received the Robert Lowry Patten Award in 2013.<ref>[https://sel.rice.edu/robert-lowry-patten-award#:~:text=The%20Robert%20Lowry%20Patten%20Award,studies%20of%20the%20Nineteenth%20Century. Robert Lowry Patten Award]. Rice University. 2013.</ref> |
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In 2023 she presented the [[A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography]]. |
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==Selected works== |
==Selected works== |
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Leah Price | |
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| Born | Leah Price October 6, 1970 |
| Spouse | Nir Eyal (bioethicist) |
| Children | 1 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Yale University; Girton College, Cambridge University |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Harvard University, Rutgers University |
| Main interests | British novel |
Leah Price (born October 6, 1970) is an American literary critic who specializes in the British novel and in the history of the book. She is Henry Rutgers Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at Rutgers University and founding director of the Rutgers Initiative for the Book.[1][2][3][4][5] She has written essays on old and new media for The New York Times Book Review, London Review of Books, The Paris Review, and The Boston Globe.[6][7]
Education and career
[edit]Price completed her undergraduate studies at Harvard University, graduating summa cum laude in 1991 with an A.B. in Literature. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and received a Hoopes Prize for her A.B. thesis.[8]
In 1998, she earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University. From 1997–2000 Price was a Research Fellow in English Literature at Girton College, Cambridge University.[9] [10]
In 2000 Price was appointed Professor of English and American Literature at Harvard University, where at the age of 31 she became one of the youngest assistant professors ever to be promoted to tenure at Harvard.[9]
In 2019 she was appointed as Henry Rutgers Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at Rutgers University and founding director of the Rutgers Initiative for the Book.
She received the Robert Lowry Patten Award in 2013.[11]
In 2023 she presented the A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography.
Selected works
[edit]- The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2000) ISBN 978-0521782081
- Literary Secretaries/Secretarial Culture with Pamela Thurschwell (Routledge, 2005) ISBN 978-1138378827
- Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books (Yale University Press, 2011) ISBN 978-0300170924
- How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain (Princeton University Press, 2012) ISBN 978-0691114170
- What We Talk About When We Talks About Books: The History and Future of Reading (Basic Books, 2019) ISBN 978-0465042685
Personal life
[edit]Price is married to Rutgers bioethicist Nir M. Eyal, and they have one daughter and live in Princeton, New Jersey.
Price is since 2012 a member of Giving What We Can, a community of people who have pledged to give at least 10% of their income to effective charities.[12]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Leah Price – Initiative for the Book". sites.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-25.
- ^ Brown NP. The best of bestowing: the 'gifts you can keep unwrapping'. November-December 2012. Harvard Magazine: New England regional/explorations.
- ^ Reich H. How to focus when your mobile phone is distracting you from reading or writing. ABC Arts. The Book Show. Saturday Saturday 21 March 2020 at 4:53pm
- ^ Leah Price. Rutgers Initiative for the Book. Rutgers University
- ^ Leah Price. Rutgers University
- ^ "Leah Price". edX. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
- ^ Price, Leah (2019-09-17). "Books Won't Die". The Paris Review. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
- ^ "University Grants Young Female Star Unusual Tenure | News | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
- ^ a b "University Grants Young Female Star Unusual Tenure | News | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved 2020-02-25.
- ^ "Price CV".
- ^ Robert Lowry Patten Award. Rice University. 2013.
- ^ "List of Giving What We Can Members".
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