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)
Director of Graduate Studies Long Term Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Languages and Literature
Research Fields: Critical and Cultural Theory; Politics and Aesthetics; Ecology and Technology; Contemporary Fiction and Film.... Read more about Verena Conley (they/them)
Department Coordinator Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Responsibilities include: - Undergraduate program administration - Graduate students chapter/prospectus/orals meetings and New Admits Day scheduling - Financial transactions processing: reimbursements/invoices/honoraria - Students employment and TF appointments - Events coordinator - Webmaster - Classrooms reservations - Dana-Palmer building maintenance - Departmental mail
Languages: English and French
Fall 2021 in person Office Hours: Mon - remotely: 9:00am-12:30pm; 1:30-4pm; T, W, Th - in person: 9:30am-12:30pm; 1:30-5pm, and Fridays - remotely: from 10am-1pm.
Director of Undergraduate Studies in Comparative Literature Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature Dean, Harvard Summer School
Research Fields: English, French, Arabic Narrative; 1001 Nights; Translation; Literature and Music; Arab-American Ethnic Identity; Cross-Cultural Literary Relations between the Arab Middle East and western Europe.... Read more about Sandra Naddaff (she/her)
