David Damrosch

David Damrosch is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University, USA, where
he is also Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature. Professor Damrosch is one of the world’s foremost authorities on World Literature, ast President of the American Comparative Literature Association, and author or editor of 17 books, including the ground-breaking What Is World Literature? (Princeton University Press, 2003; translated into seven languages). Among his other publications are How to Read World Literature (Blackwell, 2009), The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (Henry Holt, 2007), World Literature in Theory (edited; Wiley Blackwell, 2014), The Routledge Companion to World Literature (edited with Theo D’haen and Djelal Kadir, Routledge, 2012), The Longman Anthology of World Literature (Longman, 2004. Six vols., General editor, with twelve co-editors), and The Longman Anthology of British Literature (Longman, 1998, General editor, with eleven co-editors).