#  Steven Biel 

Executive Director

 

 

 



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 email <biel@fas.harvard.edu> 

 



 

Steve Biel is Executive Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center. He is also Senior Lecturer in History and Literature, where he served as Director of Studies from 1999 to 2006. He is the author of American Gothic: A Life of America's Most Famous Painting (W.W. Norton, 2005), Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster (Norton, 1996; revised edition, 2012), and Independent Intellectuals in the United States, 1910-1945 (New York University Press, 1992), and the editor of American Disasters (NYU Press, 2001) and Titanica: The Disaster of the Century in Poetry, Song, and Prose (Norton, 1998).

 

 

 





 

 

- ## Role
    
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