Greta Pane

Greta Pane received her PhD in English from Harvard University, where she completed a dissertation on aesthetic experience, language, and attention in the 19th-century novel.

Her research interests include critical theory, phenomenology, cognitive theory and literature, aesthetics, and the comparative history of the novel. She has taught classes on narrative theory, literature and sexuality, the European novel, British poetry, Victorian culture, expository writing, and historical research methods; she has co-advised senior theses on Old English feud, artistic revelation in George Eliot, and quantitative analysis of speech in Shakespeare. At Harvard, Dr. Pane was the recipient of a Mellon Fellowship, a Dexter Fellowship, and the Rudenstein Dissertation Completion Fellowship. She recently received a grant from the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst for study in Germany. She is currently at work on a book manuscript, The First Scale of Attention: Aesthetic Experience and Linguistic Form in the Novel, on Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, George Eliot, and Henry James. An article on Thomas Hardy, “The Unreal Path to a Real Place,” will be published by the journal Style. Dr. Pane has recently presented papers on shifted attention in Flaubert, on syntax and affect in late Henry James, and on cognitive linguistic theory and the experience of reading Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms and Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom.