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Chair of the Standing Committee on Degrees in History and Literature: Bruno M. Carvalho (on leave 2025-2026)

Paulina Alberto, Professor of African and African American Studies and of History

Steven Biel, Senior Lecturer on History and Literature

Jonathan H. Bolton, Howard Mumford Jones Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Glenda R. Carpio, Powell M Cabot Professor of American Literature; Harvard College Professor

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

Laura A. Frahm, Professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies

Alison Frank Johnson, Professor of History and of Germanic Languages and Literatures

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, Professor of History

Maya Jasanoff, Coolidge Professor of History (on leave 2025-2026)

Ju Yon Kim, Patsy Takemoto Mink Professor of English; Harvard College Professor

Shawon Kinew, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture

Deidre Lynch, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature; Harvard College Professor

Durba Mitra, Richard B. Wolf Associate Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Christopher Pexa, Associate Professor of English (on leave fall term)

Matthew Saunders, Professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies

Kirsten Weld, Professor of History (on leave fall term)

Angela Allan, Lecturer on History and Literature

Lauren Brandt, Lecturer on History and Literature

Lillian Havstad, Lecturer on History and Literature

Laura Quinton, Lecturer on History and Literature

Briana Smith, Lecturer on History and Literature

Matthew Sohm, Lecturer on History and Literature

Hannah Waits, Lecturer on History and Literature

Duncan White, Lecturer on History and Literature

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

History and Literature—Chairs and Directors