Martin Puchner

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Martin Puchner


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Nuremberg, Germany
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Martin Puchner is a literary critic and philosopher. He studied at Konstanz University, the University of Bologna, and the University of California, Santa Barbara, before receiving his Ph.D. at Harvard University. Until 2009 he held the H. Gordon Garbedian Chair at Columbia University, where he also served as co-chair of the Theater Ph.D. program. He now holds the Byron and Anita Wien Chair of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is the founding director of the Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research at Harvard University.

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“Like ancient scribes, we are once again scrolling down texts and sitting hunched over tablets. How to make sense of this combination of old and new?”
Martin Puchner, The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization

“After having been made a wife to an older man and an attendant to a princess, the identity she chose to retain was the one she had acquired by her own initiative: that of an author.”
Martin Puchner, The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization

“Alexander the Great is well-known as a larger-than-life king. It turns out that he was also a larger-than-life reader.”
Martin Puchner, The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization

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