The International Advisory Board consists of eight internationally renowned scholars and intellectuals. Each has played a significant role in shaping and developing the field of global literary studies to which the Cluster is dedicated. During an annual community event, the International Academic Advisory Board meets with Principal Investigators, Participating Researchers and early career researchers to advise on the further development of the Cluster and to join resident members in discussing the Cluster’s emergent research questions.

• Prof. Dr. Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Professor of Medieval Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (USA)
• Prof. Dr. Rita Felski, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Virginia (USA)
• Prof. Dr. Wiebke Denecke, Professor of East Asian Literatures, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
• Prof. Dr. David Damrosch, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University (USA)
• Prof. Dr. Simon During, Professorial Fellow at the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne (Australia)
• Prof. Dr. Theo D’haen, Professor of English Literature, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
• Prof. Dr. Robert Reid-Pharr, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University (USA)
• Yvonne A. Owuor, Author, Nairobi (Kenya)

Former Members:

• Prof. Dr. Wai Chee Dimock, William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies, Yale University (USA), member until April 2022