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Michael Anesko
Associate Professor of English

Contact:
121 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
Office Phone: 814-865-9932
mwa2@psu.edu

Office Hours:
Not Teaching

Educational History:
Ph.D., M.A. Harvard University
B.A. Penn State

Research Interests:
The history of the book; authorship as a profession; the sociology of literature

Awards:
Liberal Arts Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award, Penn State, 2005

Major Publications:
Letters, Fictions, Lives: Henry James and William Dean Howells (Oxford, 1997)
"Friction with the Market": Henry James and the Profession of Authorship (Oxford, 1986)