David Damrosch#
| Membership Number: | 3409 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k64196&pageid=icb.page287197 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 - present Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature, Dept. of Comp. Lit., Harvard University
- 1994-2009 Professor of English and Comp. Lit., Columbia University
- 1980-1994 Assistant and Associate Professor of English and Comp. Lit., Columbia University
Fields of Scholarship
- Literature and the Bible
- Word Literature
- Theory and methods of comparative literature
- Translation studies
- Writing systems and global scripts
Honours and Awards
- 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
