Harold Bernard Segel (September 13, 1930 – March 16, 2016) was professor emeritus of Slavic literatures and of comparative literature at Columbia University.^[1]

Segel was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and attended Boston Latin School. He majored in Modern Languages at Boston College (BS, 1951) and did graduate work at Harvard University (PhD, 1955).^[2][3]

Works

• The Literature of Eighteenth-Century Russia: A History and Anthology (1967)
• The Major Comedies of Alexander Fredro (1969)
• The Baroque Poem: A Comparative Survey (1974)
• Twentieth-Century Russian Drama from Gorky to the Present (1979)
• Turn-of the-Century Cabaret: Berlin, Munich, Paris, Barcelona, Vienna, Krakow, St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Zurich (1987)
• Renaissance Culture in Poland. The Rise of Humanism, 1470–1543 (1989)
• The Vienna Coffeehouse Wits 1890-1938 (1995)
• Pinocchio's Progeny : Puppets, Marionettes, Automatons, and Robots in Modernist and Avant-Garde Drama (1995)
• Death of Tarelkin and Other Plays: The Trilogy of Alexander Sukhovo Kobylin (1996) editor
• Stranger in Our Midst: Images of the Jew in Polish Literature (1996) editor
• Egon Erwin Kisch, the Raging Reporter (1997)
• Polish Romantic Drama: Three Plays in English Translation (1997) editor
• Body Ascendant: Modernism and the Physical Imperative (1998)
• The Columbia Guide to the Literature of Eastern Europe Since 1945 (2003)