Tag: Leo Damrosch

  • Nation & World

    Labors of love for scholar at heart

    Leo Damrosch has the relaxed air of a man six years into retirement. Since adding emeritus to his title as Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature, Damrosch has won a National Book Critics Circle award and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2013 for “Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World.” More recently, “Eternity’s Sunrise: The…

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Tocqueville’s Discovery of America

    Ernest Bernbaum Research Professor on Literature Leo Damrosch retraces the nine-month journey through America by historian Alexis de Tocqueville, author of “Democracy in America,” who cannily predicted the growing social unrest toward slavery in America.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Teaching as ‘a secular pulpit’

    After a quarter century, David Damrosch left Columbia to pursue his passions in literature and languages at Harvard.

    4 minutes