David Damrosch is an American literary historian, was born in Maine and raised there and in New York, currently the Ernest Bernbaum Professor at Harvard University and an Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
[1][2][3][4] His great-great-grandfather was Leopold Damrosch.
[5] Damrosch studied at Yale University, receiving his BA in 1975 and his PhD in 1980.
[6] He founded the Institute for World Literature in 2010[7] and has previously been the president of the American Comparative Literature Association.
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