Faculty

Bliss Carnochan, Professor, Emeritus

At Stanford Since: 1960

Email: carnochan@stanford.edu

Degrees:

Ph.D., Harvard, 1960

Titles:

Richard W. Lyman Professor of Humanities, Emeritus

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Bliss Carnochan is the Richard W. Lyman Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, and was director of the Stanford Humanities Center from 1985 to 1991. Carnochan's research and writing has focused on 18th-century literature in its cultural and historical settings. Other research interests: prison literature; Victorian culture; American higher education.