Education
From Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University.
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Leo Damrosch
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Career
In 2001, he was named the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University. He received a B.A. from Yale University, an M.A. Among his other books are Symbol and Truth in Blake's Myth (1980), God's Plot and Man's Stories: Studies in the Fictional Imagination from Milton to Fielding (1985), Fictions of Reality in the Age of Hume and Johnson (1987), Tocqueville's Discovery of America (2010), Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World (2013), and Eternity's Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake (2015).
Religion
Damrosch's The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus is one of the most important recent explorations of the early history of the Society of Friends.
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His areas of academic specialty include Romanticism, the Enlightenment, and Puritanism.
