Theo D’haen is Emeritus Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Leuven (Louvain) in Belgium, and earlier taught at Leiden and Utrecht. He was Erasmus Chair and Senior Fulbright Scholar at Harvard, Visiting Professor at the Sorbonne, the University of Vienna, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the University of Sichuan at Chengdu. Past President of FILLM, Member Academia Europaea, Fellow English Association.