Elaine Scarry

Professor Elaine Scarry is the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University since 1997. Prior to his work at Harvard University, he served as the William T. Fitts, Jr. Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Her interests include beauty and its relation to justice, Mental, verbal, and material creation,Citizenship and consent, the language of physical pain, 19th-Century British Novel, and lastly 20th-Century Drama. Her publications include Naming Thy Name (2016); Thermonuclear Monarchy (2014), Thinking in an Emergency (2011), Rule of Law, Misrule of Men (2010), Who Defended the Country? (2003), On Beauty and Being Just (1999), Dreaming by the Book (1999), Resisting Representation (1994), The Body in Pain (1985). He is the recipient of the Mendelsohn Award, Truman Capote Award, Levenson Award and is a member of the American Philosophical Society.