Cynthia
Wachtell
Research Professor of American Studies; Director of the S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program
Dr. Cynthia Wachtell, the founding director of the S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program and a research professor of American Studies, earned her PhD in the History of American Civilization and an AM in English at Harvard University. She jointly earned an MA and a BA, summa cum laude, from Yale University in American Studies.
Her academic field of expertise is American literature from the nineteenth century to the present. In addition to teaching at , she has taught at Harvard University, The New School for Social Research, and Fordham University.
She is the editor of The Backwash of War: An Extraordinary American Nurse in World War I, for which she wrote an extended introduction and the first biography of Ellen N. La Motte. She is also author of the path-breaking study War No More: The Antiwar Impulse In American Literature, 1861-1914 and assorted articles about American literature and about war writing.