The International Institute of Literature & Arts (IILA) is pleased to announce the election of 30 distinguished scholars as IILA Distinguished Fellows.

This recognition honors their outstanding contributions to literary studies, art history, film studies, and cultural theory, and aims to promote global collaboration in the humanities and arts.

The title of IILA Distinguished Fellow represents one of the highest recognitions granted by the Institute to scholars whose work has significantly shaped contemporary intellectual and artistic discourse.

IILA Distinguished Fellows 2026（Some of these professors have passed away, and we pay tribute to them）

Literary & Comparative Studies

Terry Eagleton — Lancaster University

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak — Columbia University

Homi K. Bhabha — Harvard University

Stephen Greenblatt — Harvard University

Franco Moretti — Stanford University

David Damrosch — Harvard University

Jonathan Culler — Cornell University

Haun Saussy — University of Chicago

王宁 Wang Ning — Shanghai Jiao Tong University

乐黛云 Yue Daiyun — Peking University

Art History & Visual Culture

Griselda Pollock — University of Leeds

James Elkins — School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Hal Foster — Princeton University

Alexander Nagel — New York University

David Freedberg — Columbia University

T. J. Clark — University of California, Berkeley

Mieke Bal — University of Amsterdam

巫鸿 Wu Hung — University of Chicago

Hans Belting — Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design

Film & Media Studies

David Bordwell — University of Wisconsin–Madison

Kristin Thompson — University of Wisconsin–Madison

Noël Carroll — City University of New York

Laura Mulvey — Birkbeck, University of London

Dudley Andrew — Yale University

Henry Jenkins — University of Southern California

Global Cultural Studies

Achille Mbembe — University of the Witwatersrand

Dipesh Chakrabarty — University of Chicago

Néstor García Canclini — Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana

王斑 Wang Ban — Stanford University

柄谷行人 Karatani Kojin — Japanese Philosopher & Literary Theorist

Official Statement

The International Institute of Literature & Arts warmly congratulates the newly elected IILA Distinguished Fellows and looks forward to future collaborations with scholars worldwide in advancing research in literature, arts, and cultural studies.