MG Prezioso received her Ph.D. in Education from Harvard University in 2024.

MG graduated with a B.A. in English literature from Harvard College in 2013 and an Ed.M in Language and Literacy from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education in 2017. Her academic interest in children’s and young adult literature began while writing her undergraduate senior thesis on Edwardian children’s literature and J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.

After working as a research assistant for the Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative, MG began her doctoral studies in the Human Development, Learning, and Teaching concentration at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. Her dissertation investigated how children become absorbed, or immersed, in books, and how literature advances understanding across intellectual, emotional, personal, and moral lines.

Her current work continues to investigate story world absorption and consider the effects of absorptive reading, in and beyond K-12 education.

When she is not researching, writing, or teaching, you will find MG enjoying musical theatre, reading, running, traveling, and rooting for (and lamenting about) the New York Mets.