Leah Price


Leah Price is an American literary critic who specializes in the British novel and in the history of the book. She is Henry Rutgers Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at Rutgers University and founding director of the . Prior to moving to Rutgers, Price was Professor of English and American Literature at Harvard University, where at the age of 31 she became one of the youngest assistant professors ever to be promoted to tenure at Harvard. She has written essays on old and new media for The New York Times Book Review, London Review of Books, The Paris Review, and The Boston Globe.

Education

Price completed her undergraduate studies at Harvard University, graduating summa cum laude in 1991 with an A.B. in Literature. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and received a Hoopes Prize for her A.B. thesis.
In 1998, she earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University. From 1997–2000 Price was a Research Fellow in English Literature at Girton College, Cambridge University.

Selected works

Price is married to Rutgers bioethicist Nir M. Eyal, and they have one son and live in Princeton, New Jersey.