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Daniel Heller-Roazen is the Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He specializes in Medieval Studies, Philosophy, Poetics, Linguistics, and Psychoanalysis. His notable publications include 'Far Calls: Omens, Slips, & Epiphanies' (2025), 'Absentees: Variously Missing Persons' (2021), and 'Dark Tongues: Art, Rogues, and Riddlers' (2013). Heller-Roazen is recognized for his scholarly contributions, having received the Modern Language Association’s 2008 Aldo Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies. He has also been awarded fellowships from prestigious organizations such as the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In addition, he was honored with a medal from the Collège de France in 2010 and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018. At Princeton, he teaches both introductory courses in Comparative Literature and advanced graduate seminars focusing on topics such as medieval literature and philosophy. His recent courses have explored divination, mimesis, and the linguistics of poetics. He has held the position of Director of the Gauss Seminars in Criticism from 2007 to 2015 and is an associate member of the faculties in the Departments of Classics, French and Italian, German, and Philosophy.
Princeton University • Princeton, NJ
Teaching introductory courses in Comparative Literature and upper-level seminars.
GRE scores are not accepted. Ph.D. is the primary degree; students are not required to hold an M.S.E. prior to admission.