#  David Damrosch 

Director, IWL

Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

 

 

 



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 David 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).