#  Samantha Matherne Named Harvard College Professor 

 





May 08, 2026

 

 

Professor Samantha Matherne will join four other Harvard faculty members as Harvard College Professors in recognition of their commitment to undergraduate teaching.

Matherne, who explores the relationship between perception and aesthetics through a historical lens, has seen enrollment in her course on Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason” grow from 18 to 80. In her new class combining Jane Austen’s canon with philosophical texts, students “marveled at how much they happily read and how it helped them understand what makes philosophy philosophy.”

Read more about Professor Matherne and her colleagues [here](https://current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/five-harvard-faculty-named-harvard-college-professors).



 

 

 



 

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