Anders Hallengren (b. 1959) is an associate professor of Comparative Literature and a research fellow in the Department of History of Literature and the History of Ideas at Stockholm University. He has served as consulting editor for literature at Nobelprize.org, and is editor-in-chief of TFL, the Swedish University journal of literary research.

Dr. Hallengren has been a visiting fellow in the Department of History at Harvard University, and a visiting professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Hawaii. He has lectured in many countries, including the USA, Canada, Russia, China, India, and South Africa. As a travelling foreign affairs journalist during the term of Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat, he became deeply interested in Egyptian history and Arabic culture.