David Damrosch


David Damrosch is an American literary historian, currently the Ernest Bernbaum Professor at Harvard University and an Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Damrosch studied at Yale University, receiving his BA in 1975 and his PhD in 1980. He taught at Columbia University from 1980 until 2009 when he moved to Harvard University. He founded the Institute for World Literature in 2010 and has previously been the president of the American Comparative Literature Association.