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Chair of the Standing Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology: Stephen Mitchell

Director of Undergraduate Studies: Lowell Brower

Ali Asani, Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures

Josiah Blackmore, Nancy Clark Smith Professor of the Language and Literature of Portugal

David Damrosch, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature

Daniel Donoghue, John P. Marquand Professor of English

David Elmer, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature

John T. Hamilton, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Comparative Literature and of Germanic Languages and Literatures (on leave 2022-2023)

Catherine McKenna, Margaret Brooks Robinson Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures

Stephen Mitchell, Robert S. and Ilse Friend Professor of Scandinavian and Folklore

Gregory Nagy, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature

Joseph Nagy, Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies

Kimberley Patton, Professor of the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion (Divinity School)

Michael Puett, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History

Panagiotis Roilos, George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies and of Comparative Literature

David Stern, Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature

Natasha Sumner, Associate Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures

Richard Wolf, Professor of Music

Felicity Lufkin, Lecturer on Folklore and Mythology

Stephen Mitchell, Robert S. and Ilse Friend Professor of Scandinavian and Folklore

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

Folklore and Mythology—Chairs and Directors