John Hamilton

Who is John Hamilton?

John Hamilton is an American literary scholar, musician, and Professor of Comparative Literature and German at Harvard University. His former teaching positions include the University of California-Santa Cruz and New York University. He has also taught as a visiting professor at the Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition at Bristol University. Numerous academic fellowships include the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin.

Teaching and Research topics include 18th- and 19th-century Literature, Classical Philology and Reception History, Music and Literature, Literary Theory and Political Metaphorology.

From 1985 to 1996 he was the guitarist and principal songwriter, together with Donna Croughn, for the band Tiny Lights, who were based in Hoboken, New Jersey.