Leah Price is Professor of English at Harvard University, where she also holds the Harvard College Professorship.  Her research and teaching focus on the novel, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century culture, narrative theory, gender, and the history of books and reading. Her books include The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel and (co-edited with Pamela Thurschwell) Literary Secretaries/Secretarial Culture; she has also edited (with Seth Lerer) a special issue of PMLA on The History of the Book and the Idea of Literature. She writes on old and new media for the New York Times Book Review, the London Review of Books, and the Boston Globe.  She is currently working on two books (both forthcoming from Princeton University Press), Victorian Bibliophobia and A Short History of Shorthand. She co-directs the seminar on the history of the book at the Harvard Humanities Center and is a supervisor of the English Institute.