Faculty Publications
The following comprises a list of the book publications written or edited by the core faculty of Northwestern's program in Comparative Literary Studies.
Chris Abani
The Secret History of Las Vegas (Penguin Books, 2014)
Sanctificum (Copper Canyon Press, 2010)
There Are No Names for Red (Red Hen Press, 2010)
Feed Me the Sun (Peepal Tree Press, 2010)
Song For Night (Akashic Books, 2007)
The Virgin of Flames (Penguin Books, 2007)
Hands Washing Water (Copper Canyon Press, 2006)
Becoming Abigail (Akashic Books, 2006)
Graceland (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004)
Dog Woman (Red Hen Press, 2004)
César Braga-Pinto
A Violência das Letras: Amizade e inimizade na literatura brasileira (1888-1940) (EdUERJ, 2018)
As Promessas da História: Discursos Proféticos e Assimilação no Brasil Colonial (1500-1700) (2003)
Laura Brueck
Writing Resistance: The Rhetorical Imagination of Hindi Dalit Literature (Columbia University Press, 2014)
Christopher Bush
Ideographic Modernism: China, Writing, Media (Oxford, 2010)
Stèles (co-editor/co-translator) (Wesleyan University Press, 2007)
Corey Byrnes
Clare Cavanagh
Jorge Coronado
Visiones de los Andes (co-editor, Plural & University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019)
Portraits in the Andes: Photography and Agency (1900-1950) (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018)
The Andes Imagined: Indigenismo, Society, and Modernity (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009)
Penelope Deutscher
Foucault's Futures: A Critique of Reproductive Reason (Columbia University Press, 2017)
The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Ambiguity, Conversion, Resistance (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
How to Read Derrida (Granta/Norton, 2006)
A Politics of Impossible Difference: The Later Work of Luce Irigaray (Cornell University Press, 2002)
Yielding Gender: Feminism, Deconstruction and the History of Philosophy (Routledge, 1997)
Scott Durham
Phantom Communities: The Simulacrum and the Limits of Postmodernism (Stanford University Press, 1998)
Harris Feinsod
Hannah Feldman
From a Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art and Representation in France, 1945-62 (Duke University Press, 2014)
Peter Fenves
Walter Benjamin entre filósofos (Palinodia, 2017)
The Messianic Reduction: Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time (Stanford University Press, 2010)
Late Kant: Towards Another Law of the Earth (Routledge, 2003)
Arresting Language: From Leibniz to Benjamin (Stanford University Press, 2001)
"Chatter": Language and History in Kierkegaard (Stanford University Press, 1993)
A Peculiar Fate: Metaphysics and World History in Kant (Cornell University Press, 1991)
Reginald Gibbons
Renditions (Four Way Books, 2021)
An Orchard in the Street (American Readers Series, 2017)
Last Lake (University Of Chicago Press, 2016)
How Poems Think (University Of Chicago Press, 2015)
Slow Trains Overhead: Chicago Poems and Stories (University Of Chicago Press, 2010)
Sophocles, Selected Poems: Odes and Fragments (translator, Princeton University Press, 2008)
Creatures of a Day (Louisiana State University Press, 2008)
Fern-texts: Autobiographical Essay on the Notebooks of Young S. T. Coleridge (b. 1772) (Hollyridge Press, 2005)
In The Warhouse (Fractal Edge Press , 2004)
Sophocles: Antigone (co-translator, Oxford University Press, 2003)
Sweetbitter: A Novel (Louisiana State University Press, 2003)
It's Time (Louisiana State University Press, 2002)
Bakkhai, by Euripides (Oxford University Press, 2001)
Selected Poems of Luis Cernuda (translator, Sheep Meadow, 1999)
Homage to Longshot O'Leary (Holy Cow! Press, 1998)
Sparrow: New and Selected Poems (Louisiana State University Press, 1997)
The Poet's Work: 29 Poets on the Origins and Practice of Their Art (University Of Chicago Press, 1989)
Susannah Gottlieb
Hannah Arendt: Reflections on Literature and Culture (editor, Stanford University Press, 2007)
Regions of Sorrow: Anxiety and Messianism in Hannah Arendt and W.H. Auden (Stanford University Press, 2003)
Nina Gourianova
The Aesthetics of Anarchy: Art and Ideology in the Early Russian Avant-Garde (University of California Press, 2012)
Exploring Color: Olga Rozanova and the Early Russian Avant-Garde, 1910-1918 (Routledge, 2000)
Marianne Hopman
Choral Meditations in Greek Tragedy (co-editor) (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
Scylla: Myth, Metaphor, Paradox (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
Rebecca Johnson
Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation (Cornell University Press, forthcoming 2021)
Rajeev Kinra
Writing Self, Writing Empire: Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Early Modern Indo-Persian State Secretary (University of California Press, 2015)
Jörg Kreienbrock
Sich im Weltall orientieren: Kosmophilosophien 1950 – 1970 (Turia + Kant, 2020)
Das Medium der Prosa: Studien zur Theorie der Lyrik (August Verlag, 2020)
Malicious Objects, Anger Management, and the Question of Modern Literature (Fordham University Press, 2013)
Kleiner. Feiner. Leichter: Nuancierungen zum Werk Robert Walsers (Diaphanes, 2010)
Evan Maina Mwangi
The Postcolonial Animal: African Literature and Posthuman Ethics (University of Michigan Press, 2019)
Translation in African Contexts: Postcolonial Texts, Queer Sexuality, and Cosmopolitan Fluency (Kent State University Press, 2017)
Africa Writes Back to Self: Metafiction, Gender, Sexuality (SUNY Press, 2010)
The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945 (Columbia University Press, 2007)
Bildad Kaggia: Voice of the People (Sasa Sema Publications, 2001)
Guide to Encounters from Africa (Nairobi : Macmillan Kenya, 2000)
Patrick Noonan
Nasrin Qader
Alessia Ricciardi
Finding Ferrante: Authorship and the Politics of World Literature (Columbia University Press, 2021)
After La Dolce Vita: A Cultural Prehistory of Berlusconi's Italy (Stanford University Press, 2012)
The Ends of Mourning: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Film (Stanford University Press, 2003)
Domietta Torlasco
The Rhythm of Images: Cinema beyond Measure (University of Minnesota Press, 2021)
The Heretical Archive: Digital Memory at the End of Film (University of Minnesota Press, 2013)
The Time of the Crime: Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Italian Film (Stanford University Press, 2008)
Alejandra Uslenghi
Latin America at fin-de-siècle Universal Exhibitions. Modern Cultures of Visuality (Palgrave, New Directions in Latino American Cultures, 2016)
Walter Benjamin. Culturas de la imagen (editor) (Eterna Cadencia, 2011)
Neil Verma
Theater of the Mind: Imagination, Aesthetics, and American Radio Drama (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
Samuel Weber
Inquiétantes singularités (Hermann, 2014)
Targets of Opportunity: On the Militarization of Thinking (Fordham University Press, 2005)
Theatricality as Medium (Fordham University Press, 2004)
Jennifer Weintritt
The Greek Epic Cycle in Latin Epic (forthcoming)
William West
As If: Essays in "As You Like It" (punctum books, 2016)
Rematerializing Shakespeare: Authority and Representation on the Early Modern English Stage (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
Theatres and Encyclopedias in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
Author's Pen and Actor's Voice : Playing and Writing in Shakespeare's Theatre (co-editor) (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Tristram Wolff
Giving Language Time: The Uprooted Word in the Romantic Century (forthcoming)