Leland de la Durantaye (born 1972) is a writer, critic, translator and professor of comparative literature.
He has taught at the École normale supérieure and Harvard University and is currently Professor of Literature at Claremont McKenna College.
His nonfiction books are Style is Matter: The Moral Art of Vladimir Nabokov (2007), Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction (2009), and Beckett’s Art of Mismaking (2016).
His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Village Voice, The London Review of Books, Bookforum, Artforum, The Believer, and other newspapers and magazines.
His first novel, Hannah versus the Tree, was published by McSweeney's in November 2018.