Professor Bermann is Cotsen Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Comparative Literature. In addition to articles and reviews in scholarly journals, she is author of The Sonnet Over Time: Studies in the Sonnets of Petrarch, Shakespeare, and Baudelaire; translator of Manzoni’s On the Historical Novel; co-editor of Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation; and co-editor of A Companion to Translation Studies. Her current projects focus on lyric poetry, translation studies, historiography and literary theory, migration and literature, and new directions in comparative literature.
Professor Bermann is an executive committee member of the Program in European Cultural Studies. Read her full bio on the Department of Comparative Literature website.