Dan Chiasson

He is the Lorraine Chao Wang Professor of English Literature at Wellesley College.

Chiasson is currently working on a nonfiction book, Bernie for Burlington: A Story of Politics and Change in One American Place, based in part on his own early memories of Mayor Sanders, to be published by Knopf in 2026.

[2] He graduated summa cum laude in Classics and English from Amherst College[3] (1993), and from Harvard University, where he received a Ph.D. in English and was awarded the Whiting Foundation Award in the Humanities.

In addition to teaching at Wellesley, Chiasson has been affiliated with Boston University's Master of Fine Arts program, with NYU's program in Paris, France, and with the Middlebury College Bread Loaf Environmental Conference in Ripton, Vermont.

He is on the editorial board of the literary magazine The Common, based at Amherst College.