Elisa New is a Professor of English at Harvard University. She holds a B.A. from Brandeis University (1980), as well as a M.A. and a Ph.D from Columbia University (1982 and 1988, respectively). Her interests include American poetry, American Literature-1900, Religion and Literature, and Jewish literature. ^[1] Before moving to Harvard, she taught at the University of Pennsylvania. She had three daughters (Yael, Orli, and Maya) with her first husband.

On December 11, 2005, she married Lawrence Summers who became her second husband. ^[2]

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