William Mills Todd III is Harvard College Professor and Harry Tuchman Levin Professor of Literature at Harvard; he teaches in the Slavic and Comparative Literature Departments. He was educated at Dartmouth College, Oxford, and Columbia University. He has published many articles on Russian literature of the post-medieval period, on literary theory, and on the sociology of literature. He has edited several multi-author volumes and written The Familiar Letter as a Literary Genre in the Age of Pushkin and Fiction and Society in the Age of Pushkin: Ideology, Institutions, Narrative. These books have also appeared in Russian translation, as has an edited volume of American Pushkin studies.

William Todd
Research Professor, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor of Literature, Emeritus, Harvard University