People

Ali S. Asani

aliasani@fas.harvard.edu

Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures

(On leave.)

Gojko Barjamovic

barjamovic@fas.harvard.edu

Senior Lecturer on Assyriology, NELC

Director of Undergraduate Studies, NELC

Josiah Blackmore

Nancy Clark Smith Professor of the Language and Literature of Portugal

RLL Director of Graduate Studies (Fall 2024)

Julie A. Buckler

buckler@fas.harvard.edu

Samuel Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature

Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Sarah Craycraft

scraycraft@fas.harvard.edu

Head Tutor, Folklore & Mythology

Lecturer

As Head Tutor, I collaborate with Folklore and Mythology students to design their curriculums and senior thesis projects. I teach the Folklore and Mythology sophomore tutorial, FOLKMYTH 97: Fieldwork and Ethnography (spring), FOLKMYTH 120: Folklore and...

David Damrosch

ddamrosc@fas.harvard.edu

Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature

Director, Institute for World Literature

Céline Debourse

cdebourse@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

NELC Director of Undergraduate Studies

(On leave 2025-26.)

Daniel Donoghue

dgd@wjh.harvard.edu

John P. Marquand Professor of English

David F. Elmer

delmer@fas.harvard.edu

Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, Dept. of the Classics

Classics Director of Undergraduate Studies

Faculty Dean of Eliot House

Curator, The Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature

Sean Gilsdorf

Lecturer on Medieval Studies

Administrative Director of the Committee on Medieval Studies

John Hamilton

jhamilt@fas.harvard.edu

William R. Kenan Professor of German and Comparative Literature

Comp Lit Director of Graduate Studies

Jon D. Levenson

Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies

Harvard Divinity School