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Beth Blum is the Harris K. Weston Associate Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University's Department of English within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania (2014). Her interdisciplinary research examines intersections between literature and therapeutic culture, focusing on self-help genres, the history of reading practices, and temporality studies.
Blum’s first major work, The Self-Help Compulsion (2020), traces the global influence of self-help literature on modernist authors like Joyce, Woolf, and Wharton. Her current project explores the literary and social dimensions of 'being present' across Stoicism, Buddhism, and contemporary culture. She serves as British and Anglophone Book Reviews editor for Contemporary Literature.
Her research has been published in top journals including Modernism/Modernity, PMLA, and American Literary History, alongside public-facing essays in The New Yorker and Aeon. Teaching focuses on modernist literature, experimental criticism, and Harvard's fictional representations.
