Rate My Professor Stephanie Burt

Stephanie Burt is the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University. She earned a B.A. from Harvard University in 1994 and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 2000. Her academic interests include poetry, especially from the 20th and 21st centuries, science fiction, literature and geography, contemporary writing, comics and graphic novels, and literature alongside other arts.

Burt has authored numerous books of poetry and literary criticism, including We Are Mermaids (2022), Advice from the Lights (2017), The Poem Is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them (2016), Belmont (2013), Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry (2008), The Forms of Youth: Adolescence and 20th-Century Poetry (2007), and Randall Jarrell and His Age (2002). She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship for poetry in 2016 and has served as a judge for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Burt is coeditor of poetry at The Nation and has taught courses at Harvard on topics including Taylor Swift and her world.