David Damrosch

{{short description|American literary historian|bot=PearBOT 5}}

David Damrosch is an American literary historian, was born in Maine and raised there and in New York, currently the Ernest Bernbaum Professor at Harvard University and an Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.{{Cite web|url=https://complit.fas.harvard.edu/people/david-damrosch|title=David Damrosch|publisher=harvard.edu|accessdate=April 14, 2017}}{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/daviddamrosch/biocv |title=CV |publisher=harvard.edu |accessdate=April 14, 2017}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n86057128/ |title=Damrosch, David |publisher=worldcat.org |accessdate=April 14, 2017}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.amacad.org/content/members/newFellows.aspx?s=a |title=Newly Elected Fellows |publisher=amacad.org |accessdate=April 14, 2017}} His great-great-grandfather was Leopold Damrosch. {{Cite web |title= David Damrosch | Interview | American Masters|website=PBS |url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/archive/interview/david-damrosch/}}

Damrosch studied at Yale University, receiving his BA in 1975 and his PhD in 1980. He taught at Columbia University from 1980 until 2009 when he moved to Harvard University.{{cite web|title=David Damrosch|url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/daviddamrosch/biocv|website=scholar.harvard.edu|accessdate=14 May 2017}} He founded the Institute for World Literature in 2010{{cite web|title=Reflections on the Institute for World Literature at Harvard University (20 June – 14 July, 2016)|url=http://www.chase.ac.uk/chase-blog/2016/8/4/reflections-on-the-institute-for-world-literature-at-harvard-university-20-june-14-july-2016|website=CHASE - Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-East England|accessdate=14 May 2017|archive-date=17 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171017020028/http://www.chase.ac.uk/chase-blog/2016/8/4/reflections-on-the-institute-for-world-literature-at-harvard-university-20-june-14-july-2016|url-status=dead}} and has previously been the president of the American Comparative Literature Association.

In 2023 he was awarded the Balzan Prize.[https://www.balzan.org/en/prizewinners Balzan Prize 2023]