Biographical Notes
NEIL L. RUDENSTINE was appointed in 1991 as the twenty-sixth President of Harvard University, where he is also Professor of English and American Literature and Language. From 1968 to 1988, as Associate Professor and then Professor of English at Princeton University, he held the positions of Dean of Students, Dean of the College, and Provost. From 1988 to 1991, he was Executive Vice President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Educated at Princeton, Oxford (as a Rhodes Scholar), and Harvard, where he received his Ph.D. in 1964, he served on the Harvard faculty from 1964 until 1968. He is the author of Sidney's Poetic Development (1967), the co-editor (with George S. Rousseau) of English Poetic Satire: Wyatt to Byron (1972), and the co-author (with William G. Bowen) of In Pursuit of the Ph.D. (1992). Dr. Rudenstine is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Philosophical Society, and the Committee for Economic Development. He has been a trustee of the College Entrance Examination Board and of the Wooster School in Danbury, Connecticut, of which he is a graduate.