William Todd

William Todd

Advisory Board Faculty Associate

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

Areas of Expertise

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.