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Theo D'haen

Theo D'haen is a Belgian literary scholar educated at the universities of Antwerp (MA 1972) and Massachusetts at Amherst (PhD 1981). He is an emeritus professor of Leiden and Leuven, where he taught English, American, and Comparative Literature. He has held the Erasmus Chair at Harvard, visiting professorships at the Sorbonne, Vienna, Tsinghua, and Nanjing University, a Yangtze River Professorship at the University of Sichuan in Chengdu, and a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He has published on postmodernism, postcolonialism, and world literature. He served as President of FILLM, in various capacities with ICLA, and as a Trustee of the Academia Europaea, for which he also edited the European Review.