Susan Stewart (born March 15, 1952) is an American poet and literary critic. She is the Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English, emerita, at Princeton University.
In 2023, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
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Life
Professor Stewart holds degrees from Dickinson College (B.A. in English and anthropology), the Johns Hopkins University (M.F.A. in poetics) and the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D. in folklore).
She teaches the history of poetry, aesthetics, and the philosophy of literature, most recently at Princeton University.
Her poems have appeared in many journals including: The American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, Poetry, Tri-Quarterly, Gettysburg Review, Harper's, Georgia Review, Ploughshares, and Beloit Poetry Journal.