


Rather, it’s an exploration through an archive of sorts-a space as crowded and full of treasures as her office, labyrinth-like, full of unexpected words and ideas. Though her accomplishments are numerous, to understand Lepore is not to merely scroll through her resume or the first page that comes up when you Google her name. Her writer’s page on The New Yorker website is 30 pages long. Also with Kamensky, she co-founded a longform magazine called Common-place.

The David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History and chair of Harvard’s history and literature program, Lepore has written seven academic works, compiled a collection of essays, and co-penned a novel with Brandeis University professor Jane Kamensky. If she ever wanted to, Lepore could fill one of those shelves just with her own words. Movie theater seats previously used in the Somerville Theatre during the 20th century are permanently affixed to the floor.
