Organization
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Executive Officers
President
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Steven P. Sondrup (USA) |
Special Advisor to the President
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Eugene Chen Eoyang (USA) |
Vice Presidents
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Hans Bertens (Netherlands) |
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Eduardo F. Coutinho (Brazil) |
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Monica Spiridon (Romania) |
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Zhou Xiaoyi (China) |
Secretaries
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John Burt Foster (USA) |
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Marc Maufort (Belgium) |
Treasurers
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Kamigaito Ken’ichi (Japan)
Treasurer for Asia and the Pacific Region |
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Kathleen Komar (USA)
Treasurer for North and South America |
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Micéala Symington (France/Ireland)
Treasurer for Europe, Africa, and the Middle East |
Honorary Presidents
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Eva Kushner (Canada)
ICLA President: 1979–1982 |
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György M. Vajda† (Hungary)
ICLA President: 1982–1985 |
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Douwe Fokkema† (Netherlands)
ICLA President: 1985–1988 |
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Earl Miner† (USA)
ICLA President: 1988–1991 |
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Maria-Alzira Seixo (Portugal)
ICLA President: 1991–1994 |
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Gerald Gillespie (USA)
ICLA President: 1994–1997 |
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Jean Bessière (France)
ICLA President: 1997–2000 |
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Kawamoto Kōji (Japan)
ICLA President: 2000–2004 |
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Tania Frânco Carvalhal† (Brazil)
ICLA President: 2004–2007 |
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Dorothy Figueira (USA)
ICLA President: 2007 |
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Manfred Schmeling (Germany/France)
ICLA President: 2007–2010 |
Executive Council
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Lucia Boldrini (England) |
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Cho Sung-Won (Korea) |
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Francis Claudon (France) |
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Ibrahim Diene (Senegal) |
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Angela Esterhammer (Switzerland/Canada) |
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Isabel Capeloa Gil (Portugal) |
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Marina Grishakova (Estonia) |
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Peter Hajdu (Hungary) |
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Ute Heidmann (Switzerland) |
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Jasbir Jain (India) |
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Pirjo Lyytikäinen (Finland) |
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Anders Pettersson (Sweden) |
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Sergio Perosa (Italy) |
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Haun Saussy (USA) |
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Inaga Shigemi (Japan) |
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Anne Tomiche (France) |
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Hein Viljoen (South Africa) |
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Zhang Longxi (Hong Kong) |
Committees
Balakian Prize Committee
Chair
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Monika Schmitz-Emans (Germany) |
Coordinating Committee
- Publications: See under “Comparative Literature History” on the Publications page
- Current Projects
Chair
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Margaret Higonnet (USA) |
Nominating Committee
Chair
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Manfred Engel (Germany) |
Research Committee
Chair
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César Domínguez (Spain) |
Structures Committee
Chair
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Jean-Marc Moura (France) |
Translation Committee
Chair
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Sandra L. Bermann (USA) |
Editor
Editor: Recherche littéraire / Literary Research
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Dorothy Figueira (USA) |
Research Committees
Research Committee on Literary Theory
Chair
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John Zilcosky (Canada) |
Research Committee on Comparative Literature in the Digital Age
Chair
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Hans Joachim Backe (Germany) |
Research Committee on Gender Study
Chair
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William J Spurlin (England) |
Research Committee on Mapping Multilingualism in World Literature
Chair
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Alfons Knauth (Germany) |
Research Committee on Literary and Cultural Inter-Relationships Between India, Its Neighboring Countries, and the World
Chair
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Chandra Mohan (India) |
Research Committee on Scriptural Reasoning and Comparative Studies
Chair
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Yang Huilin (China) |
Research Committee on Literature and Neuroscience
Chair
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Suzanne Nalbantian (USA) |
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