Cynthia Haven

Cynthia L. Haven is an American literary scholar, author, critic, Slavicist, and journalist.

The biography was also named a 2019 CHOICE Magazine Outstanding Academic Title.

Her books have been reviewed in The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, World Literature Today, The San Francisco Chronicle, Harper's Magazine and many other publications.

She has been a Milena Jesenská Journalism Fellow with the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna[2] and a visiting scholar at Stanford University's Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages while researching her book on French theorist René Girard.

She was a Voegelin fellow at the Hoover Institution while working on her book on Nobel poet Joseph Brodsky and his translator, George L. Kline.