Karen Thornber

 Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
 

• Harvard University Center for the Environment
• Department of Comparative Literature
• The Program in Literature
• Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

Research Interests

World literature and the literatures of East Asia; transculturation; cultural engagement with environmental crises and concerns; ecocriticism; trauma.

Environmental Courses

Literature 115: Literature and the Environment

Related Publications

Imperial Texts in Motion: Transculturating Modern Japanese Literature in
Colonial and Semicolonial Intra-East Asian Literary Contact Nebulae (Book, Forthcoming)
East Asian Literatures and the Environment (Book, in progress)
Perverse Symbioses: Repelling Bodies and Landscapes in Modern Japanese Literature (in progress)