David Damrosch is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. A past president of the American Comparative Literature Association, he is the founder and director of Harvard’s Institute for World Literature. His books include What Is World Literature? (2003), The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (2007), How to Read World Literature (expanded 2d. ed. 2017), and Comparing the Literatures: What Every Comparatist Needs to Know (forthcoming from Princeton). He is the general editor of the six-volume Longman anthologies of British Literature and of World Literature, co-editor of The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature, and co-editor of two collections in Chinese, Theories of World Literature: A Reader (2013) and Xin fangxiang: bijiao wenxue yu shijie wenxue duben (2010).