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Director of the Classical Studies Program James Romm. Photo by Karl Rabe

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Daniel Mendelsohn, Professor of Humanitites. Photo by Karl Rabe

Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures

Franco Baldasso
Diane Barkstrom
Nicole Caso
Odile S. Chilton
Robert Cioffi
Lauren Curtis
Ziad Dallal
Celina Jiang
Franz R. Kempf
Marina Kostalevsky
Stephanie Kufner
Soonyoung Lee
Gabriella Lindsay
Patricia López-Gay
Daniel Mendelsohn
Oleg Minin
Chiara Pavone
Dina Ramadan
James Romm
Jana Schmidt
Nathan Shockey
Éric Trudel
David Ungvary
Marina van Zuylen
Olga Voronina
Thomas Wild
Shuangting Xiong
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Assistant Professor of Written Arts Jenny Xie. Photo by Karl Rabe

Written Arts

Ian Buruma
Mary Caponegro
M. Gessen
Benjamin Hale
Michael Ives
Robert Kelly
Ann Lauterbach
Valeria Luiselli
Dawn Lundy Martin
Wyatt Mason
Daniel Mendelsohn
Dinaw Mengestu
Chiori Miyagawa
Franz Nicolay
Joseph O'Neill
Jenny Offill
Philip Pardi
Francine Prose
Susan Fox Rogers
Mona Simpson
Rebecca Swanberg
Jenny Xie
Literature
Dean of the College Deirdre d’Albertis. Photo by Wais Kakarr ’26

Literature

Jaime Osterman Alves
Franco Baldasso
Thomas Bartscherer
Ingrid Becker
Jonathan Brent
Mary Caponegro
Nicole Caso
Maria Sachiko Cecire
Robert Cioffi
Lauren Curtis
Deirdre d'Albertis
Mark Danner
Adhaar Noor Desai
Nuruddin Farah
Elizabeth Frank
Derek Lance Furr
Stephen Graham
Donna Ford Grover
Rebecca Cole Heinowitz
Elizabeth M. Holt
Hua Hsu
Michael Ives
Thomas Keenan
Robert Kelly
Franz R. Kempf
Marina Kostalevsky
Peter L'Official
Ann Lauterbach
Soonyoung Lee
Marisa Libbon
Patricia López-Gay
Joseph Luzzi
Daniel Mendelsohn
Alys Moody
Matthew Mutter
Joseph O'Neill
Francine Prose
Dina Ramadan
Susan Fox Rogers
James Romm
Nathan Shockey
Karen Sullivan
Éric Trudel
David Ungvary
Marina van Zuylen
Olga Voronina
Thomas Wild
Daniel Williams
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