People

Annabel Kim

annabel_kim@fas.harvard.edu

On Leave Academic Year 2026-27

C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France

French Section Leader

Research Interests: 20th- and 21st-century French Literature; Feminism; Contemporary Novel; Literature and Politics. I received a B.A. in French and Art History from Williams College in 2007 and a Ph.D in French from Yale University in 2014. I am...

Daniel Aguirre Oteiza

daguirre@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish)

Interim Director of Graduate Studies

Spanish Section Leader

Academic Degrees: A. B., Universidad de Salamanca; Diploma of Higher Studies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University Research Interests: Modern Spanish Literature and Culture (18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries); Spanish, Latin...

Josiah Blackmore

jblackmore@fas.harvard.edu

Nancy Clark Smith Professor of the Language and Literature of Portugal

Portuguese Section Leader

Portuguese Undergraduate Advisor

Academic Degrees: B.A., M.A., Ohio State Univ., Ph.D., Harvard Univ. ITT International Fellow (Univ. de Lisboa) Research Interests: Medieval and Renaissance Portuguese Literature and Culture; Camões; the Maritime Humanities; Lusophone Imperial/Colonial...

Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja

acpistoja@fas.harvard.edu

Roy G. Clouse Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (Italian)

Italian Undergraduate Advisor

I hold a BA in Medieval and Humanistic Philology from the University of Milan, an MPhil in European Literature & Culture, and a PhD in Italian Studies from the University of Cambridge. My doctoral research was funded by the Gates Foundation. Before...

Bruno Carvalho

bcarvalh@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies

Co-Director of the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative

Affiliated Professor in Urban Planning and Design at the Graduate School of Design

Bruno Carvalho specializes in urban life and how cities change. He is the author of The Invention of the Future: A History of Cities in the Modern World (Princeton University Press, forthcoming in January 2026).The book opens in the 1750s, when city...

Sidney Chalhoub

chalhoub@fas.harvard.edu

On Leave Academic Year 2025-26

Affiliate Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures (Portuguese)

Sidney Chalhoub taught history at the University of Campinas, Brazil, for thirty years. He moved to Harvard in July 2015. A social historian of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Brazil, his first monograph, Trabalho, lar e botequim (1986), is a...

Francesco Erspamer

erspamer@fas.harvard.edu

Robert S. and Ilse Friend Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures

Academic Degrees: Laurea in Lettere, Diploma di perfezionamento, Università di Roma “La Sapienza” Research Interests: Renaissance culture; intellectual history; modern and contemporary Italian novel; literature and politics. Erspamer’s book reviews appear...

Carmen Teresa Fajardo Rojas

ctfajardorojas@fas.harvard.edu

Preceptor (Spanish)

Hannah Frydman

hfrydman@fas.harvard.edu

On Leave Academic Year 2026-27

Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures

Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-century French History, Literature, and Culture; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Queer Studies; Print Culture; History of Reading. I am a cultural historian of modern France with a special interest in the relationship...

Luis Girón Negrón

giron@fas.harvard.edu

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Comparative Literature and of Romance Languages and Literatures

Education: A.B., M.T.S., PhD Harvard University Research Interests: Medieval and Golden Age Spanish Literature; Medieval, Arabic, Latin and Hebrew Literatures; History of Religions; Comparative Literature. Professor Girón-Negrón was born in Ponce, Puerto...

Elizabeth Harper

eharper@fas.harvard.edu

Visiting Lecturer (French)

Academic Degrees: University of Virginia, Ph.D, University of North Carolina, B.A. Research Interests: 13th-, 14th-, and 15th-century French Literature and Culture; Historical Poetics; History of the Book; Sound Studies; Gender Studies; Ecofeminism...

Alejandra Laera

alelaera@gmail.com

Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor (Spanish - Fall 2025)

I am a cultural critic specializing in the intersections of literature, economy, and politics in Latin American—and particularly Argentine—narrative. In my latest book, ¿Para qué sirve leer novelas? Narrativas del presente y capitalismo (Fondo de Cultura...