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Rebecca L. Walkowitz

Rebecca L. Walkowitz is Associate Professor of English and Affiliate Faculty in Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. Her research focuses on transnational and multilingual approaches to literary history. She is the author of Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation (2006) and the editor or coeditor of several additional books, including, with Douglas Mao, Bad Modernisms (2006). Her book about the translatability of the contemporary global novel, “Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature,” is forthcoming from Columbia University Press. icon

Translating the Untranslatable: An Interview with Barbara Cassin

By Rebecca L. Walkowitz

Barbara Cassin is a French philosopher, translator, and theorist of translation. Trained as a philologist and philosopher specializing in ancient Greece, she is the director of research at the Centre ...

Virtual Roundtable on Amy Waldman’sThe Submission

By James E. Young, Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Nadia Abu El-Haj, & Bruce Robbins

Last fall Public Books sponsored a lively roundtable discussion of Amy Waldman’s widely praised novel The Submission (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011), which considers what might have happened if the ...

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