Manthia Diawara
Professor, Comparative Literature
Director, Africana Studies
New York University

Dilek Dizdar
Translator and Professor
Bogaziçi University & Universität Mainz

Bei Ling Huang
Research Associate, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University
Founder and Executive Director, Independent
Chinese PEN Center

Karen Lawrence, ex officio
President
Sarah Lawrence College

Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
Department of Languages and Culture, University of Roskilde
Department of Education, Åbo Akademi University

Wole Soyinka, ex officio
Nobel Laureate
Director, Literary Arts, International Institute of Modern Letters
Elias Ghanem Chair in Creative Writing,University of Nevada Las Vegas

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities
Columbia University

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o,, ex officio
Distinguished Professor,
English & Comparative Liteatrture
Director, International Center for
Writing and Translation
University of California, Irvine

Lawrence Venuti
English Department, Temple University

Michael Wood
Charles Barnwell Straut Professor of English and Chair, Department of English
Professor, Comparative Literature
Princeton University


Past Members

Jacques Derrida

Susan Kent
Los Angeles City Librarian, Los Angeles Public Library

Elena Poniatowska
Writer and Journalist

Mark Strand
Former Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize Winner

Anke Biendarra
Department of German

Carol Burke
Department of English

Vinayak Chaturvedi
Department of History

Edward Fowler
Department of East Asian Languages and Literature

David Theo Goldberg
UC Humanities Research Institute
Department of African American Studies

Adriana Johnson
Department of Comparative Literature

Ketu Katrak
Department of Asian American Studies

Catherine Liu
Humanities Center
Department of Film and Media Studies

Rodrigo Lazo
Department of English

J. Hillis Miller
Departments of English and Comparative Literature

Laura O'Connor
Department of English

Maria Pantelia
Department of Classics
Director, Thesaurus Linguae Gracae

Fatimah Tobing Rony
Department of Film and Media Studies

Jacobo Sefami
Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Hu Ying
Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures