Practice of Arabic on the Gordon Gray Endowment, 2022-2023
William Granara is professor of the practice of Arabic language and literature at Harvard University in the departments of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Comparative Literature, and is currently the director of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies. He is also the founding director of Harvard Summer School’s program, Postcolonial Studies: France and the Arab World, in Aix-en-Provence, France. Professor Granara specializes in the literature and history of the Arab Mediterranean in both the medieval and modern periods. ... Read more about William Granara (he/him)
Research Professor of African and African American Studies and of Comparative Literature Emeritus
Research Fields: African and Caribbean 'Anglophone' literatures; theatrical theory and dramatic literature, Western and non-Western; comparative African and Afro-American critical thought; Marxist literary and cultural theory; colonial and postcolonial studies; twentieth-century revolutionary social philosophy and literature.
Research Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literature, African and African American Studies in Residence, and Women, Gender and Sexuality
A past-President of the American Comparative Literature Association, Françoise Lionnet is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literature, African and African American Studies, and Women, Gender and Sexuality at Harvard.... Read more about Françoise Lionnet (she/her)
Research Professor of Comparative Literature and Smith Research Professor of French Language and Literature
Research Fields: The dialogue of literature, philosophy, anthropology and the arts; Literary history, theory and cultural Studies; 18th-20th and 21st literature in French; Feminism; Questions of Change in Thought.... Read more about Christie McDonald
Research Fields: Professor Owen's primary areas of research interest are premodern Chinese literature, lyric poetry, and comparative poetics. Much of his previous work has focused on the middle period of Chinese Literature (200-1200); however, he is currently engaged in writing a collection of essays on Chinese literature of the early period. He has a concurrent interest in Chinese drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.... Read more about Stephen Owen
C. Douglas Dillon Research Professor of the Civilization of France and Research Professor of Comparative Literature Emerita
Research Fields: 20th-Century French Literature and Culture; Avant-Garde Movements and Theories of the Avant-Garde; Feminist Theory; Problems of Narrative; Writers and Politics; Problems of Memory; The Holocaust.... Read more about Susan Rubin Suleiman
Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Research Professor of German and Comparative Literature Emerita
Research Fields: German, English, and French literature, especially poetry and the novel, from 1770 to the present. Spacial interests include aestheticism and symbolism, modernism and the avant-garde, contemporary literature, colonialism and post-colonialism. ... Read more about Judith Ryan
Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature Emeritus
Research Fields: race, ethnicity, interracialism, migration, multilingualism, and themes and motifs in literature of the United States and of Europe.... Read more about Werner Sollors
Harvard College Professor Harry Tuchman Levin Professor of Literature and Research Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus
Research Fields: Narrative and cultural studies; Russian, English, and French literature of the eighteenth to twentieth centuries; Russian fiction and social history; literary sociology, semiotics, Pushkin and Dostoevsky. ... Read more about William Mills Todd III
Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Comparative Literature Emerita
Research Fields: Ruth Wisse undertook the study of literature because it seemed to offer more information and experience than any other branch of knowledge. She moved from English into Yiddish and Comparative Literature for similar reasons.... Read more about Ruth Wisse
