She specializes in 19th and 20th century art, focusing particularly on the work of Gustave Courbet, the Impressionists and the representation of women and the work of women artists.

Nochlin has authored numerous books, most notably Realism (1971), The Politics of Vision (1989) and Representing Women (1999).

In addition, she has published many articles on modern art and its creators, including studies of Cézanne, Degas, Manet, Cassatt, Seurat, Matisse and Picasso, and contemporary artists.

Nochlin has been awarded various fellowships and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and has been named Harvard’s Charles Eliot Norton Professor for 2003-04.

Today she will receive an honorary Doctor of Letters degree.

Philip Roth

Philip Roth first came to national attention with the 1959 novella Goodbye, Columbus.

Set in his hometown of Newark, New Jersey, the watershed literary work and its accompanying stories established a voice—raw, angry and unafraid to tackle the unpleasant and controversial. It went on to win the National Book Award.

The Pulitzer prize winning author may have topped the bravura performance of Columbus, at least in terms of notoriety, with 1969’s Portnoy’s Complaint. The book became a number-one best-seller, shocking many with its frankness about male sexuality.

Roth has written from the perspective of men, women, a fictional character who happens to be named Philip Roth and even a female breast (in The Breast).

“Satire,” Roth has said, “is moral outrage transformed into comic art.”

After teaching creative writing at the University of Chicago, Princeton, University of Iowa and the University of Pennsylvania, he retired in 1992 but has continued to publish fiction.

Roth will receive a Doctor of Letters degree.

Robert G. Stone, Jr. ’45-’47

As a member of the Harvard Corporation from 1975 to 2002 and its Senior Fellow for seven years, Robert G. Stone, Jr. ’45-’47 co-chaired a record-setting $2.6 billion University fund raising campaign and chaired the University presidential search committee in 2000-2001.