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Chair of the Standing Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology: Michael J. Puett

Ali Asani, Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures (on leave 2025-2026)

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

Sarah Craycraft, Lecturer on Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology

David Damrosch, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature

Céline Debourse, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (on leave 2025-2026)

Philip Deloria, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History; Harvard College Professor

Daniel Donoghue, John P. Marquand Professor of English (on leave fall term)

David Elmer, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature

John T. Hamilton, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Comparative Literature and of Germanic Languages and Literatures

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)

Julia V. Rhyder, Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

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

Martha Selby, Sangam Professor of South Asian Studies and Professor 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

Nicholas Watson, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature

Richard Wolf, G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music

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Folklore and Mythology—Chairs and Directors

Faculty of the Standing Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology

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