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Emily Apter came to NYU in 2002, having taught in French and Comparative Literature at UCLA, Cornell University, UC-Davis, Penn and Williams College. At NYU she teaches in the departments of French, English and Comparative Literature, specializing in courses on French Critical Theory, the History and Theory of Comparative Literature, the problem of "Francophonie," translation studies, French feminism, and nineteenth-and twentieth-century French literature. Recent essays have focused on paradigms of "oneworldedness," the problem of self-property and self-ownership, literary world-systems and the translatability of genres, and how to think about translation as a form of intellectual labor. At NYU, she has co-organized two Humanities Council lecture series, on "The Humanities in an Era of Global Comparatism," (2005) and "Timing the Political." (2006). She has also initiated a series of panels at NYU's La Maison Française devoted to "Rethinking Nineteenth-Century French Studies." In 2005 she was elected MLA Divisional Representative for "Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century." She is the author of The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature (Princeton University Press, 2005), Continental Drift: From National Characters to Virtual Subjects. (Chicago University Press, 1999), Feminizing the Fetish: Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the Century France (Cornell University Press, 1990), co-editor with William Pietz of Fetishism as Cultural Discourse (Cornell UP, 1991), and André Gide and the Codes of Homotextuality (Stanford French and Italian Studies, 1987). Ongoing projects include a book titled Kapital, The Novel: (Madame Bovary), as well as essay collection, Decadence: Theory of a Century. Additional publications include articles in: Critical Inquiry, The Columbia Encyclopedia of French Thought, American Literary History, Grey Room, The Boston Review, October, Public Culture, PMLA, Sites, Parallax, Modern Language Notes, Esprit Créateur, and Critique. She edits a book series Translation/Transnation for Princeton University Press. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the ACLS, the Rockefeller Foundation and the NEH.
Ulrich Baer received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University in 1995, and has been teaching at NYU since that year. His books include: "Remnants of Song: Trauma and the Experience of Modernity in Charles Baudelaire and Paul Celan" (2000) "Spectral Evidence: The Photography of Trauma" (2002), "110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11" (editor; 2002), "The Poet's Guide to Life: The Wisdom of Rainer Maria Rilke" (editor and translator; 2005), and the forthcoming "The Rilke Alphabet" (2006). He has taught courses on the poetics of witnessing, the notion of innocence and trauma in literature and the visual arts, and comparative readings of modernist poetry, and written articles on the poetry of the Holocaust, contemporary German novels dealing with the Nazi past, and various aspects of the history and theory of photography, including an essay on French photographer Suzanne Doppelt co-authored with Avital Ronell for Artforum. As a contributing editor of New German Critique, he has co-edited with Amir Eshel a special volume on Paul Celan for that journal. He has been the recipient of a Getty Post-Doctoral Fellowship, a Humboldt-Fellowship, and twice (1998 and 2003) of NYU's Golden Dozen Award for excellence in teaching. His current projects include a book-length study of sublimation and desire co-authored with Eckart Goebel of NYU's German Department, a study of 19th and 20th representations of the clouds, and the edition of five small books of selections from Rilke's letters for Insel Verlag in Germany.
Gabriela Basterra received her Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University in 1997, and has taught at NYU ever since. She works on philosophy and literature as a member of both the Comparative Literature and the Spanish and Portuguese Department, and has been a visiting professor at Princeton University. Professor Basterra also holds the position of Directeur de Programme at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris. Her program "Autonomie Tragique: Interaction entre le politique et l'éthique" (2004-2010), includes, among other activities, her seminars "La mort tragique comme évasion" (Paris, 2005) and "Éthiques du brisement" (Paris, 2006). She has contributed to major events on Emmanuel Levinas and Paul Ricoeur and her lectures have been broadcast on Radio France Culture. In 2004, she organized the "Albert Schweitzer Series on Ethics and Politics" at NYU, which hosted lectures by Simon Critchley, Ernesto Laclau and Joan Copjec. In 2005 she co-founded with Emily Apter a New York City theory discussion group, "Theory Downtown." She is author of Seductions of Fate: Tragic Subjectivity, Ethics, Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) and is working on two book projects, Ethics of the Break: Kant, Levinas, Lacan and Ethical, Poetic and Political Address. Her recent essays include "I Love to Hate my Life or the Allure of Guilt" (2004), "El respeto como evasión" (2005), "The Other of Reason in Quotation Marks: Nietzsche on Tragedy and Doubling" (2006), "Résister aux sirènes de l'impuissance" (2006) and "Activité au-delà de toute activité (autour de Levinas)" (forthcoming). She has recently received the Golden Dozen Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Since the early 1950’s, Kamau Brathwaite has been one of
the leading producers of intellectual discourse on Caribbean
literature and culture. With poetic works such as the
Arrivants (1973), a chronicle of the triangular slave
trade, his place as a major contemporary poet and original
literary voice of the Caribbean is well-established.
The richness of Professor Brathwaite’s verse is paralleled
by the depth of his scholarly essays in literary criticism,
cultural theory, and history. In recognition of his
many literary achievements, Professor Brathwaite has been
awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature,
the Casa de las Américas Premio, the Guggenheim Fellowship,
and the Fulbright Fellowship. Among his recent books
are Ancestors, Magical Realism, Golokwati,
Words Need Love Too, Ark: A 9/11 Continuation Poem,The
Development of Creole Society in Jamaica 1770-1820, and
Born to Slow Horses.
John Chioles spends half of the year at NYU, half in Greece.
For the bulk of his education his native tongue was replaced
by English, but in more recent years he has returned to Greek
with three critical books (Theoria Tis Logotechnias,
1995; O Tragodos Aischylos, 1998; Theoria
Tis Theatrikis Praxis, February 2005), a book of short
stories in Fall 2004, and a novel in progress. In English
he has been deeply concerned with the complex problem of rendering
theatrically a number of ancient tragedies, culminating in
his work, Aeschylus: Mythic Theatre, Political Voice
(1995), along with a forthcoming book on Sophocles.
As a theatre director, he has staged works from the entire
canon, including new English and American plays. Professor
Chioles's Romeo the Pothead and Juliet the Snitch has
recently been published (2004, in Greek) by Kastaniotis Editions
in Athens.
Professor Diawara is also Director of NYU’s Institute of
Afro-American Affairs and Director of the Africana Studies
Program. The Program in Africana Studies offers a multicontinental
and interdisciplinary approach to the study of black culture,
literature, and politics. A native of Mali, Professor
Diawara received his education in France and later traveled
to the United States for his university studies. He
has taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara
and the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author
of We Won't Budge: An African Exile in the World (2003),
Black-American Cinema: Aesthetics and Spectatorship
(1993), African Cinema: Politics and Culture (1992),
and In Search of Africa (1998). He has published
widely on the topic of film and literature of the Black Diaspora.
Professor Diawara also collaborated with Ngûgî
wa Thiong’o in making the documentary Sembene Ousmane:
The Making of the African Cinema, and directed the German-produced
documentary Rouch in Reverse.
Professor Dopico teaches comparative studies of the Americas
as a member of both the Comparative Literature and Spanish
and Portuguese Department. Her research interests integrate
theories of genre with culture and geopolitics. Her
first manuscript, Houses Divided: Social Crisis and
Genealogical Fantasies in Novels of the Americas deals
with the U.S. South and Latin America, with national and hemispheric
politics, and with the novel as counter-history. Professor
Dopico works on and has taught courses exploring the culture,
politics and representation of the global South, and is interested
in the connection between critical and postcolonial theory
and North-South Studies. Her research and writing on
Latin America has focused on Chile, Mexico and most recently
Cuba, tackling questions of nation, cultural and gender politics,
political repression and the power of visual cultures.
Her work on public intellectuals and national history in Cuba
is reflected in her role as editor of Jose Marti:
Revolution, Politics, and Letters, a two volume translation
of the works of the Cuban national statestman and poet forthcoming
from Oxford University's Library of Latin America. Professor
Dopico's work on Cuba is integrated with her interest in art,
photography, and popular culture in Cubanologies: Patriotic
Aesthetics, Island Vision, and the Dialectics of National
Culture. Her Houses Divided: Genealogical Imaginaries
and Political Visions in the Americas is forthcoming from
Duke University Press. Professor Dopico also teaches courses
in the U.S. Latino and is interested in the emergent and minority
literatures of the United States and in their singular status
as a corpus reflecting how writers negotiate between originary
loyalties, hemispheric and global diasporas, and U.S. national
genres and political urgencies.
Hala Halim's research and teaching address a wide variety of issues, including contrasting accounts of heritage and urban spaces in relation to narratives of identity; translation studies and the practice of translation; questions of genre and "transculturation"; and comparative genealogies of cosmopolitanism. She has published on such subjects as the postcolonial redrawing of British educational policies in Egypt, the films of Youssef Chahine, E. M. Forster's Egyptian texts, and the translation and reception of Constantine P. Cavafy's poetry in Arabic. She is currently revising a manuscript entitled "The Alexandria Archive: An Archaeology of Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism" which identifies and critiques a Eurocentric, quasi-colonial paradigm of cosmopolitanism associated with Alexandria and seeks out alternative modes of inter-ethnic and inter-religious solidarity that speak to current postcolonial Middle Eastern imperatives. She has held an Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at UCLA's Humanities Consortium, and her translation of a novel by Mohamed El-Bisatie, Clamor of the Lake, received an Egyptian State Incentive Award in 2006. hh47@nyu.edu
John Hamilton arrived to New York University in 2007, having taught Comparative Literature and German at Harvard University from 2001-2007, with visiting professorships in Classics at the University of California-Santa Cruz and at Bristol University's Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition. In 2005-06 he was a resident fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Since 1995, he has been involved with the Leibniz-Kreis, a working group originally based in Heidelberg, which is devoted to the "Afterlife of Antiquity." His books include Soliciting Darkness: Pindar, Obscurity and the Classical Tradition (Harvard University Press, 2003) and Music, Madness and the Unworking of Language (Columbia University Press, 2008). He is currently co-editing a volume of essays entitled Radical Philology, which will be published by Oxford University Press. Upcoming projects include a book-length study entitled The Fulgurant Eye: The Politics and Philology of Security. He has published numerous articles on Pindar, Sophocles, Lessing, Hölderlin, Heine, Kafka, Ernst Bloch, Benjamin, Heinrich Böll, Valéry, Proust, and Pascal Quignard. Professor of Comparative Literature; Professor
of Russian and Slavic Studies Research interests: Slavic literatures and cinema; theory of representation; the body in culture Office Phone: 212-998-8793
Professor Javitch has been a member of the department since
1978. His publications include Poetry and Courtliness in
Renaissance England (1978) and Proclaiming a Classic:
The Canonization of "Orlando Furioso " (1991). He recently
edited the Norton Critical Edition of Castiglione's Book of
the Courtier. He is working on a book devoted to the emergence
of genre theory in the sixteenth century. He has been the
recipient of numerous grants, among them fellowships from
Villa I Tatti, the ACLS, the American Academy in Rome, and
the Guggenheim Foundation.
Jacques Lezra, a specialist in literary theory and in the literary, visual and philosophical culture of the early modern period, received his PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University in 1990. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, at Yale, Harvard, and at the Bread Loaf School of English. Lezra has published Unspeakable Subjects: The Genealogy of the Event in Early Modern Europe (1997) and edited Spanish Republic (2005) and Depositions: Althusser, Balibar, Macherey and the Labor of Reading (1988). With Georgina Dopico (NYU), he co-edited Covarrubias's 1613 Suplemento al 'Tesoro de la lengua'. His 1992 translation into Spanish of Paul de Man's Blindness and Insight won the PEN Critical Editions Award. Lezra has just completed Wild Materialism: The Ethic of Terror in Radical Democracy (Fordham 2009); his Economía política del alma: El suceso cervantino will appear in Fall 2008.
Avital Ronell taught at the University of California at Berkeley from 1984-1995 and at New York University from 1995 to the present. She served as Chair of the Department of German from Spring 1997 to Spring 2005. She taught an annual seminar in Literature & Philosophy at NYU with Professor Jacques Derrida and has taught with Professor Helene Cixous at Université of Paris VIII. She regularly teaches at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland and in Mexico. She was invited by the Humanities Council to offer a seminar at Princeton University in spring 2006. Her books include: The Uber Reader: Selected Works of Avital Ronell (Ed. Diane Davis. Forthcoming 2006); The Test Drive (2005); Stupidity (2001); (Translations in Progress: Paris: Galilée; Berlin: Brinkmann und Bose); Finitude's Score: Essays for the End of the Millennium (1994); Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania (1992); The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech (2001); Dictations: On Haunted Writing (1986) (paperback with new introduction 1993).
Professor Ross is the author of The Emergence of Social
Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune (1988). Her next
book, Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering
of French Culture (1995) was awarded a Critic's Choice
Award and the Lawrence Wylie Award for French Cultural Studies,
and was published in a French translation in 1997. She is
co-editor (with Alice Kaplan) of a special issue of Yale French
Studies on "everyday life" (1987) and is on the editorial
board of French Cultural Studies, Sites, and Parallax.
As translator she has published an English version of Jacques
Ranciere's The Ignorant Schoolmaster. She is author
of numerous articles on debates within French social theory
and cultural studies, and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship
and a fellowship from the Princeton Institute for Advanced
Study. Her most recent book, May '68 and its Afterlives
(Chicago, 2002), appeared in French translation in 2005. A
collection of essays on Anti-Americanism, co-edited with Andrew
Ross, was published by NYU Press (2004).
Professor Ruttenburg is the author of Democratic Personality:
Popular Voice and the Trial of American Authorship (Stanford
University Press, 1998) and Dostoevsky's Democracy
(Princeton University Press, 2008). She has been the recipient
of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Humanities Center Fellowship,
a University of California President's Research Fellowship,
as well as fellowships from the Social Science Research Council
for Russian and East European Studies, the National Endowment
for the Humanities, and the American Council for Learned Societies.
Works in progress include a a study of secularization in postrevolutionary
America entitled Conscience, Rights, and 'The Delirium
of Democracy'; and Dostoevsky and the Culture of American
Democracy, in which Dostoevsky serves as a lens for examining
a set of intercalated themes in the literature of American
modernity, including self-making and self-loss (in Frederick
Douglass's serial autobiographies); sentimentalism and sadism
(in abolitionist fiction); crime and masculinity (including
Mailer's The Executioner's Song); and the intersection
of race, religious fundamentalism, and radical politics. Before
coming to NYU in 2001, Prof. Ruttenburg taught in the Departments
of Comparative Literature and English at UC Berkeley (1990-2001)
and in the Department of English at Harvard University (1987-1990).
Educated in South Africa and the United States, Mark Sanders
specializes in African literatures, literary theory, and interdisciplinary
approaches to literature, law, and philosophy. He is the author
of Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid (Duke
UP, 2002), which analyzes the problem of complicity confronted
during the apartheid era by South African intellectuals, and
proposes a theory of intellectual responsibility. Also the
author of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Live Theory (Continuum,
2006), his most recent book is Ambiguities of Witnessing:
Law and Literature in the Time of a Truth Commission (Stanford
UP, 2007), an interdisciplinary analysis of testimony given
before South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission,
a body that investigated human rights abuses committed during
the apartheid era. He is editor of a special issue of the
journal Diacritics on "Ethics" that appeared in winter
2005, and co-editor of "J.M. Coetzee and His Doubles," a special
issue of the Journal of Literary Studies in preparation.
His interests range widely, with published essays on Primo
Levi, Franz Kafka, J.M. Coetzee, Thomas Pynchon, and Marlene
van Niekerk, and translations from the Afrikaans of essays
by N.P. van Wyk Louw. He has held a number of major fellowships,
including, most recently, the American Council of Learned
Societies Charles A. Ryskamp research fellowship, and the
George Watson fellowship at the University of Queensland,
Australia.
Richard Sieburth holds a joint appointment in French and
Comparative Literature. In the area of Pound studies, he has
published Instigations: Ezra Pound and Remy de Gourmont
(1978), an edition of Pound's 1912 Walking Tour in
Southern France (1992), a comparative study of Pound's
and Michaux's theories of Chinese ideogram, Signs in Action
(1987), and editions of the Pisan Cantos (2003) and
Pound’s Poems and Translations (2003). As a translator
and editor, he has published English versions of Holderlin's
Hymns and Fragments (1984), Benjamin's Moscow Diary
(1986), Leiris's Nights and Days (1988), Nerval’s Selected
Writings (1999), Scève’s Délie (2002),
Scholem’s German Poems (2002), and Buchner's Lenz
(2004) . His published articles include pieces on Sterne,
Bertrand, the French physiologies, Nerval, Huysmans, Mallarmé,
Valéry, Dada, Pound, Benjamin, and Leiris.
Cristina Vatulescu received her Ph.D in Comparative Literature from Harvard in 2005 and comes to NYU after a year as a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. She is currently completing a manuscript entitled Police Aesthetics: Literature, Film and The Secret Police, a study of the relationships between cultural and policing practices in twentieth century Eastern Europe. Taking advantage of the partial opening of the secret police archives in Russia and Romania, she focuses on their most infamous holdings-the personal files-as well as on the agency's less known involvement with cinema.Two articles stemming from this project, "Arresting Biographies: The Secret Police File in The Soviet Union and Romania," and "Politics of Estrangement: Tracking Shklovsky's Device in Literary and Policing Practices" have been published in Comparative Literature and Poetics Today. Vatulescu's new project explores the experience of immigrant intimacy and the ways in which it overlaps with two other types of intimacy at a distance: literary and cinematic intimacy.
Xudong Zhang’s teaching and research focus on modernism and
modernity within and beyond the Chinese context. He is author
of Chinese
Modernism in the Era of Reforms: Cultural Fever, Avant-Garde
Fiction, and New Chinese Cinema
(Duke 1997); and Postsocialism
and Cultural Politics: The Last Decade of China's Twentieth
Century (Duke University Press, 2008). He has also
edited Whither
China? Intellectual Politics in Contemporary China
(2002), and co-edited (with Arif Dirlik)
Postmodernism and China (Duke 2000). In Chinese, he
is the author of The Order of the Imaginary: Critical Theory
and Modern Chinese Literary Discourse (Hong Kong: Oxford
University Press, 1997); Traces of Criticism: Essays on
Theory and Cultural Politics (Beijing: Sanlian, 2003),
and Cultural
Identity in the Age of Globalization: A Historical Rethinking
of Western Discourses on Universalism (Beijing: Peking
University Press, 2005; 2nd/expanded edition, 2006). He has
translated into Chinese Walter Benjamin’s Charles Baudelaire:
A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism (Beijing: Sanlian,
1989); co-translated (with Ban Wang) Illuminations
(Hong Kong: Oxford, 1998; Beijing, Sanlian, 2003), and edited
Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism: Selected Essays of Fredric
Jameson (Hong Kong: Oxford, 1997; Beijing, Sanlian, 1998).
A collection of Professor Zhang's short essays since 2001,
Letters from New York, was published by the Shanghai
Bookstore Press in 2006. He is currently at work on two book
manuscripts, on Hegel's aesthetics; and the making of modern
Chinese essay and men of letters, respectively. Visit Professor Zhang's profile in the Department of East Asian Studies. Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Scholar in Residence Timothy Reiss
Professor Reiss’s books include Toward Dramatic Illusion (1971), Tragedy and Truth (1980), The Discourse of Modernism (1982), The Uncertainty of Analysis (1988), Knowledge, Discovery and Imagination in Early Modern Europe (1997), Against Autonomy: Global Dialectics of Cultural Exchange (2002), and Mirages of the Selfe: Patterns of Personhood in Ancient and Early Modern Europe (2003), as well as nine collections of edited essays. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Guggenheim Fellow, ACLS Fellow, has twice been awarded a Canada Council Senior Fellowship, and has received the Forkosch Prize in Intellectual History for The Meaning of Literature (1992). Two of his books have been Choice "Best Academic Books." Among other projects, he is currently working on a book on Descartes and his era, another volume on contemporary cultural exchanges, and books on various issues and authors of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Associated Faculty Thomas Bishop Professor of French and Comparative Literature Research interests: contemporary intellectual trends; modern and avant-garde theatre; cultural relations France/United States Sibylle Fischer
Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature Research interests: Dante; medieval poetry and poetics Toral Gajarawala Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature Research interests: Anglophone literature of India and Africa; postcolonial literature and theory; minority literatures; immigration and diaspora studies Philip Kennedy Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
and Comparative Literature Research interests: Medieval Arabic language and literature; classical poetry and poetics; adab; narrative and fiction; recognition/anagnorisis in literature; Qur'an and Tafsir Sylvia Molloy Albert Schweitzer Professor of the Humanities; Professor
of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures, and Comparative
Literature Research interests: 19th and 20th century Spanish American literatures; autobiography; literary theory; Latin American and European literary relations Mary Louise Pratt
Research Interests: Modern Latin American literature and culture; culture and imperialism; history of imaginaries; postcolonial theory; travel writing; discourse studies. Robert Stam
Jane Tylus
Jini Watson Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature Research interests: Asia Pacific literature and cultural studies; postcolonial studies; spatial and architectural comparative modernities; feminist and critical theory Robert Young Professor of English and Comparative Literature Research interests: Postcolonial literature and culture; history of colonialism and anti-colonialism; colonial history of the 19th and 20th centuries; literary and cultural theory Affiliated Faculty
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