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William Mills Todd III

William Mills Todd III is Harry Tuchman Levin Professor of Literature at Harvard University, where he teaches in the departments of Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages and Literatures. His publications include Fiction and Society in the Age of Pushkin: Institutions, Ideology, and Narrative and “The Ruse of the Russian Novel.” icon

Virtual Roundtable on
“Description in the Novel”

By Wai Chee Dimock, Heather Love, William Mills Todd III, J. Keith Vincent, & Cynthia Wall

This roundtable on description in the novel took place on May 3, 2016, at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University. Concluding the inaugural year of the Novel Theory Seminar, the ...

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