People
David Damrosch
Director, IWL
Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard UniversityDavid Damrosch is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University and Director of Harvard’s Institute for World Literature. His books include What Is World Literature? (2003), The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (2007), How to Read World Literature(2d. ed. 2017), and Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age (2020). He is the general editor of the six-volume Longman anthologies of British Literature and of World Literature, editor of World Literature in Theory (2014), and co-editor of The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature, and of two collections in Chinese, Theories of World Literature (2013) and New Directions in Comparative Literature (2010).
Delia Ungureanu
Associate Director, IWL
Associate Professor, University of BucharestDelia Ungureanu is Associate Director of Harvard’s Institute for World Literature and associate professor of literary theory in the Department of Literary Studies at the University of Bucharest. She is the author of Time Regained: World Literature and Cinema (2021), From Paris to Tlön: Surrealism as World Literature (2017), and Poetica Apocalipsei: Războiul cultural în revistele literare românești (1944–1947) (The Poetics of Apocalypse: The cultural war in Romanian literary magazines, 1944-1947, 2012). She has published essays on the transmedial world circulation of ideas and the global spread of surrealism. She has co-edited special issues of the Journal of World Literature on "Romanian Literature in Today's World" (2018, with Thomas Pavel), on the legacy of Pascale Casanova (2020, with Gisèle Sapiro), and on world literature and world cinema (2021, with Michael Wood).Finlay Darlington-Bell
IWL AssistantFinlay Darlington-Bell is a PhD student in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. His research is primarily focused on medieval Italian and Occitan literature, the philosophy of love, and psychoanalysis. For any questions related to the application process for the Institute of World Literature summer session, please contact Finlay at finlaybell@g.harvard.edu.Maria Dabija
IWL Assistant (Balzan Scholarship questions)Maria Dabija is a PhD student in Comparative Literature at Harvard. Originally from the Republic of Moldova, she received her BA in Romanian and Russian from the University of Bucharest in 2021. Maria is interested in World Literature, contemporary Russian fiction, modernism, postmodernism, and in their relation to the premodern. For any questions related to the Balzan Scholarship, please contact Maria Dabija at: mariadabija@g.harvard.eduBridget Kraynik
Administrative AssistantBridget Kraynik processes honoraria, reimbursements, and invoice payments for the IWL program. IWL Faculty and Group Leaders are welcome to be in touch with her regarding any payment issues or questions they might have. Bridget grew up in Ohio, where she also completed her bachelor's and master's degrees. She moved to Massachusetts in 2015, working short-term assignments at Harvard until being hired full-time in 2017.