Jed Esty
Vartan Gregorian Professor of English
Jed Esty is an internationally recognized scholar of literary modernism and 20th-century British, Irish, and postcolonial literatures. He is the author of several publications, among them his book Unseasonable Youth: Modernism, Colonialism, and the Fiction of Development, which opened original avenues of inquiry into relations among theories of modernism, the novel, and empire and national sovereignty. He has co-edited influential collections on realism in contemporary global literatures and on the state of postcolonial studies. Esty has been a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities; he is the recipient of a Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching from Penn.
About the Donor
Saul P. Steinberg, W’59
The late Saul P. Steinberg, W'59 was an Emeritus Trustee of the University of Pennsylvania and Chair Emeritus of the Board of Overseers at the Wharton School.
