Professor of French, Comparative Literature
Ph.D., Princeton.

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Research Interests:

19th- and 20th-century French and comparative literatures; Francophone studies; cultural studies; critical theory.

Affiliations:

Editor of a book series, Translation/Transnation, Princeton University Press, and serves on the editorial boards of PMLA, Comparative Literature, October and Signs.

Fellowships/Honors:

Guggenheim Fellow (2003), Mellon, Rockefeller, ACLS, NEH, College Art Association.

Selected Works:

The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature (Princeton University Press, 2006).

"The Human in the Humanities", October 96 (Spring 2001).

"D´une fin de siècle à l´autre" Critique 637-638 (June-July 2000).

Continental Drift: From National Characters to Virtual Subjects (University of Chicago Press, 1999).

Fetishism as Cultural Discourse, ed. with William Pietz (Cornell University Press, 1991).

Feminizing the Fetish: Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the-Century France (Cornell University Press, 1991).

André Gide and the Codes of Homotextuality (Stanford French and Italian Studies 48, Anma Libri, 1987).

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