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Department Administration

Luis Manuel Girón-Negrón

Director of Graduate Studies

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Office: Dana-Palmer 104

giron@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-2567

Office Hours: Fall 2026 TBA

Faton Limani

Department Administrator and Graduate Studies Coordinator

Office: Dana Palmer 107

faton_limani@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-2543

Office Hours: M-F: 9 am-5 pm (remote Wed. & Frid.)

Isaure Mignotte

Department Coordinator and Undergraduate Program Coordinator

Office: Dana-Palmer 106

mignotte@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-4186

Office Hours: Summer Hours: Mondays remotely: 9:30-5pm; Tue, W, & Th in person: 9:30am-4:30pm, and Fridays remotely: 10-1pm

Sandra Naddaff

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Office: Dana-Palmer 209

snaddaff@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-5650

Office Hours: Fall 2026 TBA; please sign up on Calendly link

Panagiotis Roilos

Chair, Department of Comparative Literature

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Office: Boylston Hall 231

roilos@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-7783

Office Hours: Fall 2026 TBA

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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