Elisa New

Elisa New (born in 1958) is a Professor of English at Harvard University. She holds a B.A. from Brandeis University (1980), as well as a M.A. and a Ph.D from Columbia University (1982 and 1988, respectively). Her interests include American poetry, American Literature-1900, Religion and Literature, and Jewish literature.^[1] Before moving to Harvard, she taught at the University of Pennsylvania.

She was born in Philadelphia, PA, and raised in Maryland.^[2] She had three daughters (Yael, Orli, and Maya) with her first husband, Fred Levine. On December 11, 2005, she married Lawrence Summers who became her second husband.^[3]

Selected works

• The Regenerate Lyric: Theology and Innovation in American Poetry. Cambridge University Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0521430210. 
• The Line's Eye: Poetic Experience, American Sight. Harvard University Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0674534629. 
• Jacob's Cane: A Jewish Family's Journey from the Four lands of Lithuania to the Ports of Baltimore and London. Basic Books. 2009. ISBN 978-0-465-01525-2. 

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