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Andrew Warren, English Teacher

Andrew Warren

Pronouns: he/him/his

Upper School English

English Teacher

Biography

After more than a decade in Cambridge, MA, I’m happy to move back to California—as a poet once said, I breathe again. In Cambridge, I was an assistant and then associate professor of English at Harvard, where for a few years I also ran the Undergraduate Program in English. Before moving to the East Coast I got my PhD in English, living in LA and carpooling down to UC Irvine… and beaches in Laguna. Most recently I was a teacher at Middlesex School, in Concord, MA, where I taught Sophomore and AP English, as well as senior electives such as Nature Writing and Comedy & Humor.

Growing up, near Cleveland, I always thought I’d be a mathematician or physicist. But in college at Dartmouth, I was lured over to philosophy, languages, and literature. That shift happened and still feels right, because what really drives me is learning about how different people experience and think about the world. It’s why I’ve lived in many different places (Edinburgh, Cork, Paris, Buenos Aires, Taipei), it’s why I stumble through learning new languages, and it’s why I teach. For me, the classroom is a place where we can open ourselves up to new ideas and perspectives as we try to figure out who we are and want to become.

Outside the classroom, I run, hike, cook and write. Oh, and read. I’m usually about halfway through six different books and am always hungry for recommendations—especially chapter books to read with my kindergartner.