We are sad to share that Donald L. Fanger, Harry Levin Professor of Literature (Emeritus), passed away on July 17. Prof. Fanger earned his PhD at Harvard in Comparative Literature in 1962, under the supervision of Harry Levin and Renato Poggioli. He taught at Brown and Stanford before returning to Harvard in 1968 when he was appointed in our department as well as in the Department of Slavic Languages and Cultures. He received the Guggenheim Fellowship and was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His books on Dostoevsky and Gogol, as well as his many essays on Tolstoy, Gorki, Solzhenitsyn, Balzac, Joyce and others have all become classics of slavic and comparative literary studies.
The Slavic Department will be organizing a memorial during the academic year.
We will post the events when they are confirmed.
Founded as a graduate program in 1904 and joining with the undergraduate Literature Concentration in 2007, Harvard’s Department of Comparative Literature operates at the crossroads of multilingualism, literary study, and media history.
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