Chair, Department of Comparative Literature Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature Director, Institute for World Literature
Research Fields: Theory and methods of comparative literature and world literary studies; Bible and ancient Near Eastern literatures; modern European and global Anglophone literatures. Current research projects include a book on the discipline of Comparative Literature, and a book on the role of global scripts in the formation of national literatures.... Read more about David Damrosch (he/him)
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
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.
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
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
Research Fields: Classical and Modern Japanese Literature, Hispano American Literature (Castilian and Lusophone), Translation Theory, Chinese and Korean modern literature and languages.
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
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.
Research Fields: Comparative Modernisms, Modern and Classical Arabic Literature, Modern Hebrew Literature, Hebrew Bible, 20th Century Anglo-American and European Poetry & Fiction. ... Read more about Daniel Behar
Research Fields: Ancient Greek, Latin, Italian and Anglophone literatures; Mediterranean studies; cultural studies; multilingual literature; identity and nationhood; migration and diaspora studies; kinship studies; sociolinguistics; postcolonial theory; Marxism; feminism; queer and gender studies; contemporary fiction and creative writing.
Research Fields: Theater & Performing Arts, Political Theory & Practice, Literature & Criticism in the modern Chinese, English, French and Indian languages ... Read more about Aurélien Bellucci
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)
Office Hours: Fall 2021: Tuesdays, 2:45-3:45 pm; Wednesday, 5:00-6:00 pm by appointment. Please contact Balraj Gill at bkgill@fas.harvard.edu to make an appointment.
Research Fields: 19th century literature of the Americas, Multiethnic Literature of the U.S., Environmental Theory, Literary Theory, Ideas of the Nation. ... Read more about Mary Frances Bradford
Tutorial Board Teaching Fellow 2020-2021 Graduate Student in Germanic Languages and Literatures
Research Fields: German, Swiss, and Austrian literatures (and philosophy) of the 18th – 20th 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
Research Fields: Translation studies, History of communism, Korean and German literatures, North Korean history, North Korean and East German cultural exchange.
