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Folklore and Mythology - Chairs and Directors

Chair of the Standing Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology: Stephen A. Mitchell
Head Tutor: Ruth Goldstein

Faculty of the Standing Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology

Daniel G. Donoghue, John P. Marquand Professor of English
David Elmer, Professor of the Classics
Deborah Foster, Senior Lecturer on Theater, Dance, and Media
John T. Hamilton, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Comparative Literature and of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Michael Herzfeld, Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences (on leave Spring term)
Catherine McKenna, Margaret Brooks Robinson Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures
Gregory Nagy, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature
Joseph F. Nagy, Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies
Kimberley C. Patton, Professor of the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion (Divinity School)
Michael J. Puett, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History
Panagiotis Roilos, George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies and of Comparative Literature
Natasha Sumner, Assistant Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures
Maria M. Tatar, John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and of Folklore and Mythology (on leave Spring term)
Richard K. Wolf, Professor of Music
Jan M. Ziolkowski, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin

Other Faculty Offering Instruction

Felicity A. Lufkin, Lecturer on Folklore and Mythology

Additional Information

For additional information, please visit http://folkmyth.fas.harvard.edu/