Barton Evans and H. Andrea Neves Professor of Literature. A graduate of Princeton University, Faggen earned his MA and PhD from Harvard. Faggen focuses on contemporary American literature (Robert Frost, Kenneth Kesey), the relationship between literature (humanities) and applied sciences, and the work of Czesław Miłosz in American and European contexts. Faggen authored many studies, among others, the monographs Robert Frost and the Challenge of Darwin (Michigan University Press 1997) and The Cambridge Introduction to Robert Frost (2008). He organized the International Miłosz Festival in Claremont (1998), edited the letters of Czesław Miłosz with Thomas Merton (Striving Towards Being: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1996), and authored interviews with Czesław Miłosz published in The Partisan Review and Books and Culture. Faggen is the director of the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies and Milosz Institute at Claremont McKenna College.