Dr. Elizabeth D. Samet, Ph.D.

Dr. Elizabeth D. Samet is a professor of English and a department academic counselor in the Department of English & World Languages at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

She is the author of several books, including Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness (winner of the American Philosophical Society’s Jacques Barzun Prize) and Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point (winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest). She has also edited three books, including the Library of America’s two-volume collection World War II Memoirs.

Her honors include a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Hiett Prize in the Humanities.