Karen Thornber
Karen Thornber is Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. She is the author of three major international-award winning scholarly monographs,
Empire of Texts in Motion: Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese Transculturations of Japanese Literature (Harvard, 2009);
Ecoambiguity: Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures (Michigan, 2012); and
Global Healing: Literature, Advocacy, Care (Brill, 2020). She edited a special issue of
Literature and Medicine on world literature and health, co-edited a special issue of the
Journal of World Literature on trans-regional Asia and futures of world literature, a special issue of
Humanities on global indigeneities and environment (published also as a separate volume), and a volume on