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Luis Manuel Girón-Negrón

Luis Manuel Girón-Negrón

Chair, Department of Comparative Literature
Professor of Comparative Literature and of Romance Languages and Literatures

Research Fields: Spanish Literature (Medieval and Golden Age); Arabic and Hebrew Literatures (Middle Ages); History of Religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the Middle Ages); Historical Linguistics; Comparative Literature. Read more about Luis Manuel Girón-Negrón

Romance Languages and Literatures profile
Office: Dana-Palmer House 104
16 Quincy Street
giron@fas.harvard.edu
p: 617-495-2567
Office Hours: Fall 2017: TBA
Julie A. Buckler

Julie A. Buckler

Samuel Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature
Faculty Associate and Member of the Executive Committee, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Research Fields: Russian literature of the imperial period, West-European and American literature, cultural studies and semiotics, gender studies, performing arts, St. Petersburg, memoirs, literary canon and popular culture. Read more about Julie A. Buckler

Slavic Department Profile
On leave Fall 2017 - Spring 2018
Office: Barker 372
buckler@fas.harvard.edu
p: 617-496-4916
David Damrosch

David Damrosch

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

Profile on academia.edu
Institute for World Literature
On leave Fall 2017-Spring 2018
Office: Dana-Palmer House 201
ddamrosc@fas.harvard.edu
p: 617-496-7031
James Engell

James Engell

Gurney Professor of English Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature

Research Fields: Eighteenth Century and Restoration; Romanticism; Criticism and Critical Theory; Rhetoric.  Read more about James Engell

Website
On leave Spring 2018
Office: Barker Center 272
jengell@fas.harvard.edu
p: 617-495-5055
Office Hours: Fall 2017: TBA
William Granara

William Granara

Professor of the Practice of Arabic on the Gordon Gray Endowment
Center for Middle Eastern Studies Director
Director of Modern Language Programs, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Professor Granara teaches Arabic language and literature and directs the Arabic language program at Harvard University. He studied Arabic at Georgetown University and received his PhD in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania . Read more about William Granara

NELC profile
CMES profile
CMES 38 Kirkland St. #302 Cambridge, MA 02138
granara@fas.harvard.edu
p: 617-496-9065
Office Hours: Fall 2017: TBA
Cécile Guédon

Cécile Guédon

Lecturer in Comparative Literature

Research Fields: Modernism, Dance, Performance, Music, Film and Visual Arts. Inter-medial Studies and Comparative Arts. Literary Theory, Poetry, Twentieth-Century Literature. French Studies, German Thought. History of Science, Embodied Cognition. Read more about Cécile Guédon

Website
Dana-Palmer 203
cguedon@fas.harvard.edu
Office Hour Fall 2017: TBA
John Hamilton

John Hamilton

William R. Kenan Professor of German and Comparative Literature
Chair, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures

Research Fields: Hermeneutics and Poetics of the Classical Tradition; Music and Language; 18th – 19th century German and French Literature; New Comparative Philology. Read more about John Hamilton

Office: Barker Center 345
jhamilt@fas.harvard.edu
p: 617-496-4272
Office Hours: Fall 2017: TBA
Biodun Jeyifo

Biodun Jeyifo

Professor of African and African American Studies and of Comparative Literature

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. 

AAAS Dpt. Profile
Office: Barker Center 258
bjeyifo@fas.harvard.edu
p: 617-384-9418
Office Hours: Fall 2017: TBA
Roanne Kantor

Roanne Kantor

Lecturer in Comparative Literature

Research Fields: Transnational exchange in the global south, Latin American and South Asian Literatures of the 20th century, intersections between literature, anthropology, and medicine.  Read more about Roanne Kantor

Barker Center, 019A
12 Quincy Street
roannekantor@fas.harvard.edu
Office Hour Fall 2017: TBA
Françoise Lionnet

Françoise Lionnet

Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (French)
Professor of African and African American Studies

A past-President of the American Comparative Literature Association, Françoise Lionnet is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and African and

Read more about Françoise Lionnet
Website
On leave Fall 2017 - Spring 2018
Office: Boylston Hall 517
flionnet@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 384-8057
Sandra Naddaff

Sandra Naddaff

Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature
Director of Undergraduate Studies 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

Room 209 - Dana-Palmer House
Office Hours by appointment: please call 617-495-4186 or email Isaure at mignotte@fas.harvard.edu to book your appointment at that time. Outside office hours, appointment requests should be sent to Dr. Naddaff directly.
snaddaff@fas.harvard.edu
p: 617-495-5650
Office Hours: Fall 2017: TBA