World Literature

Catherine Lefebvre Online Lecture: “Self-Translation & Translating Meaning Through Contemporary Art”

Jun

21

Lectures

Tim Parks: “The Translator as Reader and Writer”

Apr

19

Videos

https://vimeo.com/897371219?share=copy

Reading in Translation: full-length video (https://vimeo.com/897371219?share=copy)

“Reading in Translation”: full-length video

Videos

https://vimeo.com/896371306?share=copy

Reading in Translation (https://vimeo.com/896371306?share=copy)

A short compilation of students’ work at our annual event: “Reading in Translation.”

Videos

https://vimeo.com/897362815?share=copy

Reading in Translation (https://vimeo.com/897362815?share=copy)

Members of the Translation Studies 260 Graduate Workshop, taught by Dr. Thomas Wisniewski, read selections from their work-in-progress of translations from Japanese, German, Yiddish, Spanish, and Greek.

Books

David Damrosch, ed. and trans. Georges Ngal, “Giambatista Viko; or, The Rape of African Discourse”

Videos

https://vimeo.com/896282597?share=copy

2016 IWL_ David Damrosch, “What Isn’t World Literature_ Problems of Language, Context, and Politics” (https://vimeo.com/896282597?share=copy)

2016 IWL: David Damrosch, “What Isn’t World Literature? Problems of Language, Context, and Politics”

A recording of the opening lecture for the Institute for World Literature, Harvard, July 2016

Articles

An interview with David Damrosch

Events

Reading in Translation

Dec

06

Books

Karen Laura Thornber’s “Global Healing: Literature, Advocacy, Care”

Books

Emily Greenwood’s “Afro-Greeks: Dialogues between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the Twentieth Century”

Courses

People

Associate of the Department of Comparative Literature, 2024-2026

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

twisniew@fas.harvard.edu

Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature and of Comparative Literature

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Office: 2 Divinity Ave. #130A

dwang@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-496-0925

Office Hours: On Leave Fall 2025

Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard College Professor

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Office: c/o Reischauer Institute CGIS South S222 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

thornber@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-496-6244

Office Hours: On Leave 2024-2025

Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English, Emeritus

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Office: Barker Center 265

mshell@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-496-6538

Sangam Professor of South Asian Studies and Comparative Literature

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Office: 1 Bow Street, 336

marthaselby@fas.harvard.edu

Office Hours: Spring 2025 on sabbatical leave - by appointment only

Lecturer on Comparative Literature

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Office: Mather House Dean's Office, 10 Cowperthwaite Street

leafgren@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-4829

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.

News

May 9

Mosab Abu Toha receives 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

May 8

Congratulations to our 2024-2025 Graduates!

World Literature

Jun

21

Apr

19

Dec

06

Courses

People

Associate of the Department of Comparative Literature, 2024-2026

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature and of Comparative Literature

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Office: 2 Divinity Ave. #130A

Office Hours: On Leave Fall 2025

Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard College Professor

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Office: c/o Reischauer Institute CGIS South S222 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

Office Hours: On Leave 2024-2025

Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English, Emeritus

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Office: Barker Center 265

Sangam Professor of South Asian Studies and Comparative Literature

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Office: 1 Bow Street, 336

Office Hours: Spring 2025 on sabbatical leave - by appointment only

Lecturer on Comparative Literature

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Office: Mather House Dean's Office, 10 Cowperthwaite Street

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