Professor Martin Puchner is the Byron and Anita Wien Chair of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
FM: When did you realize that literature was something you wanted to research?
MP: Pretty late. I was not a great reader in middle or high school. I read some literature, but I was preoccupied with other things — sports and whatnot, being a teenager.
When I went off to college, I majored in philosophy — which also involves…
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