CCL People
The researchers who make up the Centre for Comparative Literature.
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The Centre for Comparative Literature website includes a full list of our members, expert consultants, and collaborators from Goldsmiths and beyond.
Advisory Board
Clare Finburgh Delijani, Co-Director
Professor Clare Finburgh Delijani is a teacher and researcher in the Department of Theatre and Performance at Goldsmiths. She is the recipient of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2023-26) during which she will be writing Ghosts of Empire: Performing Postcoloniality in France (Liverpool University Press).
Isobel Hurst, Co-Director
Isobel Hurst is Lecturer in English in the Department of English & Creative Writing at Goldsmiths. Her research examines the reception of Greek and Latin literature in English, looking at the connection between classical education and authorship and women writers’ creative engagement with the classical tradition.
Marie-Claude Canova Green, Deputy Director
Marie-Claude Canova Green is Professor Emerita of French at Goldsmiths. She has research interests in early modern European court entertainments and other forms of large-scale public spectacles, and has published widely on the topic.
Isabel Capeloa Gil
Isabel Capeloa Gil is Professor of German and Comparative Culture Studies at UCP’s Faculty of Human Sciences (Lisbon). She is an Honorary Fellow at the School of Advanced Studies (University of London) and has held Visiting Professorships at the National University of Ireland (Galway), the University of Hamburg, LMU Munich, PUC-Rio de Janeiro and USJ (Macau).
David Johnston
David Johnston is Professor of Hispanic Studies and Translation in the Centre for Translation and Interpreting at Queen’s University Belfast. He has published widely on the theory and practice of translation.
Wen-Chin Ouyang
Wen-chin Ouyang FBA is Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at SOAS, University of London. Born in Taiwan and raised in Libya, she has a BA in Arabic from Tripoli University and a PhD in Middle Eastern Studies from Columbia University.
Haun Saussy
Haun Saussy is a University Professor at the University of Chicago, teaching in the departments of Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages & Civilizations as well as in the Committee on Social Thought.
Honorary director
Lucia Boldrini, Director
Lucia Boldrini is Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths and Honorary Professor of Comparative Literature at University College London. She was CCL Director from its foundation in 2020 until September 2025.