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
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
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: Contemporary (21st-century) literatures in English and in French; postcoloniality, hysteria, the unreal, the hyper-spectacular; theatre, film, and other media.
Research Fields: Classical and Modern Japanese Literature, Hispano American Literature (Castilian and Lusophone), Translation Theory, Chinese and Korean modern literature and languages.
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: Modernist fiction (anglophone, francophone, Austrian, Balkan); the Habsburg myth; ancient Greece; world literature; narrative theory; music; film; artificial life, human vs. non-human; medical humanities, science writing; islands and utopias; Pacific literature; Tocharian, Sanskrit, and Chinese tales of the Silk Road. ... Read more about Nina Begus
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: Migration and diaspora studies; postcolonial literature and theory; women and gender studies; bilingualism; sociolinguistics; questions of identity and nationhood, particularly Mediterranean; Latin and Ancient Greek literature and philosophy, Italian literature, contemporary fiction and creative writing. ... Read more about Francesca Bellei
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 Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard 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
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
Research Fields: 19th- and 20th-century European literature (German, Italian, Polish); literary criticism; aesthetics; music and theater; epics and elegies; translation studies; travel literature; literary criticism; multiculturalism and migration, cross-cultural encounters; European intellectual history; comparative arts and intermediality; cities in literature. ... Read more about Cecily Cai
Research Fields: Modern and contemporary Arabic and Latin American literature, translation, poetry, postcoloniality, women and gender studies, translingualism, literary and cultural exchanges between Latin America and the Middle East. ... Read more about Phoebe Bay Carter
