[3] He taught at Stanford and Cornell for thirteen years before returning to Harvard in 1985; he retired in 2012.
[4] Some of his major works include Child’s Children: Ballad Study and Its Legacies (ed.
with Barbara Hillers, 2012), ‘Speak Useful Words or Say Nothing’: Old Norse Studies by Joseph Harris (2008),[5] and Prosimetrum: Crosscultural Perspectives on Narrative in Prose and Verse (ed.
[6] Author of over 100 scholarly articles, he also contributed to Seamus Heaney's best-selling translation of Beowulf.
[7] His research has been supported by grants from the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study,[1] the German Academic Exchange Service, the Fulbright Program, the Guggenheim Foundation,[8] the American Council of Learned Societies,[9] the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and the Rockefeller Foundation.