About Leo Damrosch
Born 1941. Leo Damrosch is an American university teacher and literary scholar.
Leopold Damrosch Jr. (born 1941) is an American author and professor. In 2001, he was named the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University. He received a B.A. from Yale University, an M.A. from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. His areas of academic specialty include Romanticism, the Enlightenment, and Puritanism.
Winship/PEN New England Award for nonfiction for Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius (2005)
Finalist, National Book Award for Nonfiction for Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius (2005)
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American academic
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Leo Damrosch was born in 1941 in Manila.
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