People

Jeffrey Schnapp (he/him)

Chair, Department of Comparative Literature
Carl A. Pescosolido Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature
Faculty co-director of Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Affiliate of the Department of Architecture at the GSD

Research Interests: knowledge design; media history and theory; the history of the book; the future of archives, museums, and libraries; Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio; 12th-14th-century Romance literatures; Futurism and the avant-gardes; 20th-century architecture and industrial design; the fascist decades in Italy; radical pedagogies 1960s to present; curatorial practice as a form of scholarship; critical making.
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Jeffrey Schnapp Scholar Website

Metalab at Harvard

Office: Boylston Hall 423

jeffrey@metalab.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-2528

Office Hours: Fall 2022: Wed 3-5pm in Boylston Hall 423

Lindsey Aakre

Associate Scholar

Research Fields: Comparative poetics, Classical Chinese poetry, early modern lyric consciousness, folk and fairy tales, "World Literature" and the humanities. My dissertation is on eleventh-century Chinese poets and the practice of poetic modeling.... Read more about Lindsey Aakre

laakre@fas.harvard.edu

Mosab Abu Toha

Visiting Scholar 2019-2020
Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative Fellow at Harvard Divinity School
Fellow at Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Mosab Abu Toha is a young Palestinian poet from Gaza. A graduate in English Literature, he enjoys writing stories and poems of his own. Mosab taught English at UNRWA schools in Gaza from 2017 until 2019.

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The Edward Said Public Libraries in Gaza

Warren 301

mosababutoha@fas.harvard.edu

Ania Aizman

Associate Scholar

Research Fields: Soviet literature and theater, contemporary Russian theater, Russian intellectual history, critical theory and continental philosophy, performance studies, anarchism... Read more about Ania Aizman

aaizman@fas.harvard.edu

Oluwakanyinsola (Kanyin) Ajayi

Graduate Student

Research Fields: 21st-century literature; The unreal in literature; Theatre/drama; Performance studies; Postcolonial theory; Feminist and queer theory; Trauma studies; Narratives of migration; Theories of blackness; African literature; Media studies; Pop culture... Read more about Oluwakanyinsola (Kanyin) Ajayi

ajayi@g.harvard.edu

Manuel Azuaje Alamo

Graduate Student

Research Fields: Classical and Modern Japanese Literature, Hispano American Literature (Castilian and Lusophone), Translation Theory, Chinese and Korean modern literature and languages.

mazuajealamo@fas.harvard.edu

Bes Bajraktarević

Graduate Student

Current interests: German and French philosophical tradition: aesthetics, ethics, critical theory; modernity; realism; literary form; constitutional law; cultural-intellectual history of Central and Eastern Europe... Read more about Bes Bajraktarević

bajraktarevic@g.harvard.edu

Rita Banerjee

Associate Scholar

Research Fields: Comparative modernisms, comparative Marxisms, modern South Asian literature and intellectual history, multilingualism, translation and performance, speculative fiction and genre literature, feminism in world literature, race and class, avant-garde and art house film, deconstructions of postcolonial canons, lyric essay and narrative as provocation.

Email: banerjee[at]fas.harvard.edu

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Website

Therese Banks

Tutorial Board Teaching Fellow 2022-2023
Graduate Student in Romance Languages and Literature

Research Fields: Medieval (13^th-14^thcenturies) & Early Modern French Literature (16^th-17^th centuries) including poetry and prose; imaginations of national and community identities, including issues of gender and race; intersections of literature and political theory.

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tbanks@g.harvard.edu

Daniel Behar

Graduate Student
Graduated May 2019

Research Fields: Comparative Modernisms, Modern and Classical Arabic Literature, Modern Hebrew Literature, Hebrew Bible, 20^th Century Anglo-American and European Poetry & Fiction.
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dbehar@fas.harvard.edu

Aurélien Bellucci

Graduate Student

Research Fields: Theater & Performing Arts, Political Theory & Practice, Literature & Criticism in the modern Chinese, English, French and Indian languages
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abellucci@g.harvard.edu

Homi K. Bhabha (he/him)

Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities
Senior Advisor on the Humanities to the President and Provost

Research Fields: Bhabha is the author of numerous works exploring colonial and postcolonial theory, cultural change and power, and cosmopolitanism, among other themes.... Read more about Homi K. Bhabha (he/him)

English Department Profile

Office: Wadsworth House 134

hbhabha@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-0739

Office Hours: On leave Fall 2022

Mary Frances Bradford

Graduate Student

Research Fields: 19th century literature of the Americas, Multiethnic Literature of the U.S., Environmental Theory, Literary Theory, Ideas of the Nation.
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marybradford@g.harvard.edu

Sebastian Brass

Tutorial Board Teaching Fellow 2020-2021
Graduate Student in Germanic Languages and Literatures

Research Fields: German, Swiss, and Austrian literatures (and philosophy) of the 18^th – 20^th centuries, especially romanticism, realism, classical modernity, and Gruppe 47; American and German postmodern fiction; novels of formation/institution (Bildungsroman/Institutionenroman); history and theory of autobiography and autofiction (German, French, American); epistemic and literary case narratives; media theory and media aesthetics of reading/writing scenes; theories of fiction and imagination; narratology.... Read more about Sebastian Brass

sbrass@g.harvard.edu

Lizzie Buehler

Graduate Student

Research Fields: Translation studies, History of communism, Korean and German literatures, North Korean history, North Korean and East German cultural exchange.

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Book translation: The Disaster Tourist

ebuehler@g.harvard.edu

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People

Jeffrey Schnapp (he/him)

Lindsey Aakre

Mosab Abu Toha

Ania Aizman

Oluwakanyinsola (Kanyin) Ajayi

Manuel Azuaje Alamo

Bes Bajraktarević

Rita Banerjee

Therese Banks

Daniel Behar

Aurélien Bellucci

Homi K. Bhabha (he/him)

Mary Frances Bradford

Sebastian Brass

Lizzie Buehler

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