#  Leah Jane Whittington 

John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities

 

 

 



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 location\_on Department of English, Harvard University Barker Center 275 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 

 email <lwhittington@fas.harvard.edu> 

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- Europe (Italy, France, England)
- Ancient to early modern, especially 1350–1700
- Areas of Expertise: classical reception; English Renaissance literature; survival and transmission of ancient culture; Italian humanism; historical poetics



 

 

 





 

 

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