Invitation to World Literature is a production of WGBH Educational Foundation with Seftel Productions for Annenberg Media.
For WGBH Educational Foundation
Vice President, Children’s, Education, and Outreach and Executive in Charge
Brigid Sullivan
Director of Educational Productions
Denise Blumenthal
Director of WGBH Interactive
Ron LaRussa
Executive Producers
Arthur R. Smith
Amy Tonkonogy
Content Producer
Lori Rogers-Stokes
Business Manager
Maria Constantinides
Production Manager
Marisa Nopakun
Web Production Consultant
Sarah Grafman
Designer
Li Wei
Production Designer
Cassandra Sell
Developers
Chris Beer
Kal Gieber
Alan Kwan
Mitch Smith
Senior Researcher
Anna Fort
Design Consultant
Kim Ducharme
Additional Content Producer
Arthur R. Smith
Business Manager
Maria Constantinides
Unit Managers
Polly Searles
Amy Stahl
Legal and Business Affairs
Karen Baseman
Executive Assistant
Eric Taub
Office Coordinator
Heather Myers
Production Intern
Ellie Benner
For Seftel Productions
Executive Producer
Joshua Seftel
Producers
Ross Tuttle
Annie Wong
Coordinating Producers
Maggie Anderson
Patricia Benabe
Production Manager
Jill Landaker
Editors
Gavin Coleman
Sak Costanzo
Oliver Lief
Dan Madden
Amy Seplin
Assistant Editors
Rob Chapman
Maud Dillingham
Post-Production Consultants
Brice Bishop-Pullan
Keith Overton
Directors of Photography
Mia Barker
Ava Berkofsky
Austin Debesche
Ron Egozy
Dana Kupper
Guy Mossman
Rob Muraskin
Bob Peterson
Jon Schell
Alan Thatcher
Sound
Steve Bores
Fred Burnham
Charles Cann
Eric Edwards
Adisa Khepra
Mike Reilly
Mark Roy
Blair Scheller
George Sozio
Ray Sunithet
Donny Tam
Dane Thomsen
Grip
David Bouley
Fletcher Burns
Myo Campbell
Carlos Ginard
Mike Godin
Alan Hostetler
Karl Lee
Eric Leibman
Art Meyerhoff
Chris Tetens
Eric Williams
George Zorich
Archival Research Manager
May Wilkerson
Casting Consultant
Bill Goldstein
Title Sequence
Anthony Kraus
Visual Effects
Rob Chapman
Steve Benjamin
Spencer Anderson
Kelsey Stark
Online Facility
Frame:Runner NYC
Sound Mix
Richard Bock
Production Office Interns
Steve Benjamin
Emily Chapper
Daniel Cohen
Eric Epps
Davide Fabbian
William Marshall
Stephanie Phoutrides
Ramona Sadiq
Sarah Schoonmaker
DVD Production
Modulus Studios, Boston, MA
For Annenberg Media
Senior Program Officer
Michele McLeod
Advisors
Lead Advisor, Professor David Damrosch, Harvard University
Professor Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University
Professor Nina Ha, Creighton University
Professor Shona N. Jackson, Texas A&M University
Professor Martin Puchner, Harvard University
Professor Diane Thompson, Northern Virginia Community College
The entire production team thanks our literary advisors, particularly Professor Damrosch, whose insight, inspiration, and humor not only made this project possible, but a great pleasure. We are also deeply grateful to all of the interview subjects in the video series who shared their expertise, passion, and personal experience of world literature in the spirit of inviting others into reading these great works.