Arnold Band

Education

• B.A. in Classics
• Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Harvard University
• Hebrew University, in Jerusalem
• University of Paris

Research

His research focuses on the relationship between texts and historical contexts in Jewish Literature of all periods, and specifically in modern Hebrew literature.

Award

Professor Band founded the UCLA Comparative Literature Program in 1969 and was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award in 1981. He has received both a National Endowment of Humanities Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was the Director of UCLA’s Jewish Studies Center from 1994 to 1996.