"Honorable Mention for the 2003 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies" Réda Bensmaïa is University Professor of French Studies and Comparative Literature at Brown University. He is the author of The Barthes Effect, The Year of Passages, and a novel entitled Alger ou la maladie de la mémoire. Jean-Paul Sartre's famous question, "For whom do we write?" strikes close to home for francophone writers from the Maghreb....

Mary Helen McMurran is assistant professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. Fiction has always been in a state of transformation and circulation: how does this history of mobility inform the emergence of the novel? The Spread of Novels explores the active movements of English and French fiction in the eighteenth century and argues that the new literary form of the novel was the result of a shift in translation. Demonstrating that...

Étienne Balibar is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-X and Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. His previous books in English include Masses, Classes, Ideas, Politics and the Other Scene, Race, Nation, Class (with Immanuel Wallerstein), Reading Capital (with Louis Althusser), Spinoza and Politics, and The Philosophy of Marx. étienne Balibar has been one of Europe's most important...

Gil Z. Hochberg is assistant professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. Partition--the idea of separating Jews and Arabs along ethnic or national lines--is a legacy at least as old as the Zionist-Palestinian conflict. Challenging the widespread "separatist imagination" behind partition, Gil Hochberg demonstrates the ways in which works of contemporary Jewish and Arab literature reject simple notions of separatism...

Margaret Litvin is assistant professor of Arabic and comparative literature at Boston University. For the past five decades, Arab intellectuals have seen themselves in Shakespeare's Hamlet: their times "out of joint," their political hopes frustrated by a corrupt older generation. Hamlet's Arab Journey traces the uses of Hamlet in Arabic theatre and political rhetoric, and asks how Shakespeare's play developed into a musical with a happy ending...

"Winner of a 2013 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Nonfiction, Lannan Foundation" Andrew N. Rubin is assistant professor of English at Georgetown University. He is the coeditor of Adorno: A Critical Reader and The Edward Said Reader. Combining literary, cultural, and political history, and based on extensive archival research, including previously unseen FBI and CIA documents, Archives of Authority argues that cultural politics--specifically America's...

"Named a Harvard University Walter Channing Cabot Fellow for 2014" John T. Hamilton is professor of comparative literature at Harvard University. He is the author of Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language and Soliciting Darkness: Pindar, Obscurity, and the Classical Tradition. From national security and social security to homeland and cyber-security, "security" has become one of the most overused words in culture and politics today. Yet it...

"Co-Winner of the 2016 MLA Prize for a First Book, Modern Language Association" Michael Allan is assistant professor of comparative literature at the University of Oregon. We have grown accustomed to understanding world literature as a collection of national or linguistic traditions bound together in the universality of storytelling. Michael Allan challenges this way of thinking and argues instead that the disciplinary framework of world literature,...

"Shortlisted for the ASAP Book Prize, Association for the Arts of the Present" Tarek El-Ariss is professor and chair of Middle Eastern studies at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Trials of Arab Modernity: Literary Affects and the New Political and the editor of The Arab Renaissance: A Bilingual Anthology of the Nahda. How digital media are transforming Arab culture, literature, and politics In recent years, Arab activists have confronted...

"Honorable Mention for the John Hope Franklin Publication Prize" Kirsten Silva Gruesz is Associate Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. This polished literary history argues forcefully that Latinos are not newcomers in the United States by documenting a vast network of Spanish-language cultural activity in the nineteenth century. Juxtaposing poems and essays by both powerful and peripheral writers, Kirsten Silva Gruesz...