David Damrosch#
| Membership Number: | 3409 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 - present Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature, Dept. of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
- 1994 - 2009 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
- 1980 - 1994 Assistant and Associate Professor of English and Comp. Lit., Columbia University
Fields of Scholarship
- Translation studies
- Writing systems and global scripts
- Theory and methods of comparative literature
- Word Literature
- Literature and the Bible
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Balzan Prize for World Literature "for his creative approach to world literature as a transnational circulation of works that remain alive because they are embraced and changed beyond their culture of origin. For his stupendous knowledge of Western and non-Western literatures in all their geographical breadth and historical depth"
- 2017 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
- 2011 Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, University of Bucharest
- 2011 Honorary Adjunct Professor, Beijing Language and Culture University
- 2010 Honorary Guest Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
