People

Oluwakanyinsola (Kanyin) Ajayi

Graduate Student

ajayi@g.harvard.edu

Braslavsky Alex

Tutorial Board Member 2023-2024

alexbraslavsky@g.harvard.edu

Bes Bajraktarević

Graduate Student

bajraktarevic@g.harvard.edu

Homi K. Bhabha

Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Office: Wadsworth House 134

hbhabha@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-0739

Office Hours: Fall 2023 TBD

Mary Frances Bradford

Graduate Student

marybradford@g.harvard.edu

Lizzie Buehler

Graduate Student

ebuehler@g.harvard.edu

Phoebe Bay Carter

Graduate Student

pcarter@g.harvard.edu

Min Ji Choi

Graduate Student

mchoi@g.harvard.edu

Paul Chouchana

Graduate Student

paulchouchana@g.harvard.edu

Verena Conley

Director of Graduate Studies

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Office: Dana-Palmer 202

vconley@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-496-9712

Office Hours: On Leave Fall 2023

Ollie Cowley

Graduate Student

ocowley@g.harvard.edu

Maria Dabija

Graduate Student

mariadabija@g.harvard.edu

David Damrosch

Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Office: Dana-Palmer 201

ddamrosc@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-496-7031

Office Hours: Mon 5-6:30pm and by appointment

Zhisheng Ivy Deng

Graduate Student

zdeng@g.harvard.edu

Kassandra (KC) Diaz

Tutorial Board Teaching Fellow 2023-2024

kdiaz@g.harvard.edu

David Elmer

Eliot Professor of Greek Literature

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Office: Boylston 223

delmer@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-4019

Office Hours: Wednesday 2:45-4:45pm. Please use the Calendly link

James Engell

Gurney Professor of English Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Office: Barker Center 272

jengell@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-5055

Office Hours: Thursdays 3-4:30 in Northwest Bldg B103 or by appointment

Matylda Figlerowicz

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

matyldafiglerowicz@g.harvard.edu

Office Hours: On Leave 2023-2024

Joseph Gauvreau

Graduate Student

gauvreau@g.harvard.edu

Zhe (Carrie) Geng

Graduate Student - Graduating November 2023

zgeng@g.harvard.edu

Luis Manuel Girón-Negrón

Director of Graduate Studies Fall 2023

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Office: Dana-Palmer 104

giron@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-2567

Office Hours: Mon-Wed 10:30-11:30am or by appointment

Rita Goldberg

Lecturer on Comparative Literature

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

goldberg@fas.harvard.edu

Nate Goldstone

Undergraduate Tutorial Board Teaching Fellow, 2023-2024

ngoldstone@g.harvard.edu

William Granara

Research Professor of the Practice of Arabic on the Gordon Gray Endowment, 2022-2023 Emeritus

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Office: CMES 38 Kirkland St. #302

granara@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-496-9065

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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