Karen Thornber
Karen Thornber Karen Thornber is Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. She is the author of three major international-award winning scholarly monographs, Empire of Texts in Motion: Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese Transculturations of Japanese Literature (Harvard, 2009); Ecoambiguity: Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures (Michigan, 2012); and Global Healing: Literature, Advocacy, Care (Brill, 2020). She edited a special issue of Literature and Medicine on world literature and health, co-edited a ...