Dr. Maggie Doherty

Biography

Maggie Doherty is a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of English at Harvard University. She holds a BA from Yale University, awarded in 2007, and a PhD from Harvard University, completed in 2015. Her academic interests include narrative nonfiction, magazine journalism, and literary criticism. She has contributed to prestigious publications such as The New Yorker, New York Review of Books, and The Nation. In 2020, she authored 'Equivalents: Art, Female Friendship, Liberation in the 1960s', which was a finalist for the Marfield Prize in Arts Writing and was recognized by the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work critically examines the intersections of art and literature, particularly in the context of female narratives from the 1960s. Through her teaching and writing, Doherty continues to explore the rich traditions of literary expression and its evolving forms in contemporary media.

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