Lisa Stein Haven

Lisa Stein Haven is an Professor of English at Ohio University Zanesville, specializing in British and American modernist literature, the Beat poets and silent film comedy, especially the work of Charlie and Syd Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Max Linder and Monty Banks.

In 2010, she organized and hosted "Charlie in the Heartland: An International Charlie Chaplin Conference" at Zanesville, which was attended by participants from 11 countries outside of the US.

Her work is the result of years of study at the Charlie Chaplin archive in Bologna, Italy, Paris, France and Montreux, Switzerland--as well as archives in America, including the Margaret Herrick Library, the Warner Brothers archive, the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Library and several others.

In summer 2014, Haven was the keynote speaker at Charlot 100, a celebration of the 100th anniversary of Chaplin's Little Tramp persona, held in Bologna, Italy and sponsored by Roy Export S.A.S and the Cineteca di Bologna. She is also a member of the executive board for the Buster Keaton Celebration, held in Iola, Kansas.

Her last book project was the first life and art study in English of silent film comedian Max Linder, which was published on April 19, 2021. The next book to be published will focus on the First National period in Charlie Chaplin's career. It will be released on July 31, 2023 by Pen & Sword. Her current project is a book on the early career of Buster Keaton.

She lives in Zanesville, with her husband, Mark, a violinist and orchestra director and their dogs Kallie and Stella.