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.