Leo Damrosch

Leo Damrosch is the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature Emeritus at Harvard University, where he joined the English faculty in 1989. His academic specialties include Romanticism, the Enlightenment, and Puritanism. He holds degrees from Yale University, the University of Cambridge—where he was a Marshall Scholar—and Princeton University.

His books include The Essential Writings of Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius, Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World, Eternity’s Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake, The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, and Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova. Jonathan Swift won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, while Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius was a National Book Award finalist.