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)
Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities 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 (he/him)
Office Hours: Fall 2021: Tuesdays, 2:45-3:45 pm; Wednesday, 5:00-6:00 pm by appointment. Please contact Balraj Gill at bkgill@fas.harvard.edu to make an appointment.
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)
Gurney Professor of English Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature On Leave Fall 2021
Research Fields:Romantic, Eighteenth-Century, and Restoration British Literature; Comparative Romanticism; Criticism and Critical Theory; Rhetoric; Environmental Studies; History and Economics of Higher Education.... Read more about James Engell (he/him)
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 (he/him)
Lecturer in Comparative Literature Tutorial Board Lecturer 2021-2022
Research Fields:18th, 19th, 20th-century English and French, German through early 20th century, Women’s studies, the novel, poetry; cultural and political as well as aesthetic questions.
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
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)
William R. Kenan Professor of German and Comparative Literature
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 T. Hamilton
Lecturer on Comparative Literature, Spring 2020 Lecturer on Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Allston Burr Resident Dean of Harvard College for Mather House
Research fields: the Arabic novel; Arabic language pedagogy; the theory and practice of literary translation
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature On Leave Fall 2021
Research Fields:(Post)-Colonial Studies; Afro-Asian Comparatisms; African and Caribbean Francophone Literatures; Modern and Classical Arabic Literature; Egyptian Colloquial Literature; Indonesian Studies and Malay Language Literature; Senegalese Literature (Wolof); Transnationalism and World Literature. Research Languages include: Arabic, Egyptian Colloquial, French, Bahasa Indonesia, Wolof.... Read more about Annette Damayanti Lienau (she/her)
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)
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)
Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature
Research Fields: Nagy's special research interests include archaic Greek literature and oral traditions. His ongoing goal is to integrate his research with collaborative as well as intergenerational mentorships and public engagement initiatives, especially in the context of his Harvard College and Harvard DCE courses on the ancient Greek hero (with almost 10,000 alumni), and his HarvardX MOOC, which has enrolled over 181,000 learners since its launch in 2013. His recent monographs include The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours (HUP 2013) and Masterpieces of Metonymy: From Ancient Greek Times to Now(HUP, fall 2015).... Read more about Gregory Nagy (he/him)
