Haen, Theo d'. Literature for Europe? (en anglès). Rodopi, 2009, p. 54. ISBN 978-90-420-2716-9. «"We should remember that comparative literature in the United States was also largely started by immigrants – the refugees who fled Nazi Germany ( principal among them Auerbach, Spitzer, Poggolio and Wellek)."»
Hutchinson, Ben. Comparative Literature: A Very Short Introduction (en anglès). Oxford University Press, 2018, p. 78. ISBN 978-0-19-880727-8. «"In the footsteps of pioneering figures such as Spitzer and Auerbach, the discipline of comparative literature began gathering pace in the 1950s largely as a transatlantic affair."»
Mufti, Aamir R. «Auerbach in Istanbul: Edward Said, Secular Criticism, and the Question of Minority Culture». Critical Inquiry, vol. 25, 1, 01-10-1998, pàg. 104. DOI: 10.1086/448910. ISSN: 0093-1896. «"In a brief but remarkable essay on the ethos of comparative literary scholarship in the postwar U.S., Emily Apter has argued that the discipline Auerbach, Curtius, Leo Spitzer, and others founded (or reformulated) on their arrival in the U.S. was structured in fundamental ways around the experience of exile and displacement."»
Mufti, Aamir R. «Auerbach in Istanbul: Edward Said, Secular Criticism, and the Question of Minority Culture». Critical Inquiry, vol. 25, 1, 01-10-1998, pàg. 104. DOI: 10.1086/448910. ISSN: 0093-1896. «"In a brief but remarkable essay on the ethos of comparative literary scholarship in the postwar U.S., Emily Apter has argued that the discipline Auerbach, Curtius, Leo Spitzer, and others founded (or reformulated) on their arrival in the U.S. was structured in fundamental ways around the experience of exile and displacement."»
Mufti, Aamir R. «Auerbach in Istanbul: Edward Said, Secular Criticism, and the Question of Minority Culture». Critical Inquiry, vol. 25, 1, 01-10-1998, pàg. 104. DOI: 10.1086/448910. ISSN: 0093-1896. «"In a brief but remarkable essay on the ethos of comparative literary scholarship in the postwar U.S., Emily Apter has argued that the discipline Auerbach, Curtius, Leo Spitzer, and others founded (or reformulated) on their arrival in the U.S. was structured in fundamental ways around the experience of exile and displacement."»