David Damrosch
David Damrosch (born 13 April 1953)[1] is an American literary historian. He is currently the Ernest Bernbaum Professor at Harvard University and an Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.[2][3][4][5]
Biography
Damrosch was born in Maine and raised there and in New York. His great-great-grandfather was Leopold Damrosch. [6]
Damrosch studied at Yale University, receiving his BA in 1975 and his PhD in 1980.[2] He taught at Columbia University from 1980 until 2009 when he moved to Harvard University.[7] He founded the Institute for World Literature in 2010[8] and has previously been the president of the American Comparative Literature Association.[7]
In 2023 he was awarded the Balzan Prize.[9]
Works
- The Narrative Covenant: Transformations of Genre in the Growth of Biblical Literature, 1987.
- We Scholars: Changing the Culture of the University, 1995.
- Meetings of the Mind, 2000.
- What Is World Literature?, 2003.
- The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh, 2007.
- How to Read World Literature, 2009.
- Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age, 2020.
- Around the World in 80 Books, 2021.
References
- ^ "David Damrosch". International Balzan Prize Foundation. Retrieved July 2, 2025.
- ^ a b "David Damrosch". harvard.edu. Retrieved April 14, 2017.
- ^ "CV". harvard.edu. Retrieved April 14, 2017.
- ^ "Damrosch, David". worldcat.org. Retrieved April 14, 2017.
- ^ "Newly Elected Fellows". amacad.org. Retrieved April 14, 2017.
- ^ "David Damrosch | Interview | American Masters". PBS.
- ^ a b "David Damrosch". scholar.harvard.edu. Retrieved May 14, 2017.
- ^ "Reflections on the Institute for World Literature at Harvard University (20 June – 14 July, 2016)". CHASE - Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-East England. Archived from the original on October 17, 2017. Retrieved May 14, 2017.
- ^ Balzan Prize 2023