Futures of Comparative Literature ACLA State of the Discipline Report

Ursula K. Heise: Introduction [3,000 words] - new

Futures of Comparative Literature

1. Eric Hayot: Institutional Inertia and the State of the Discipline [2,770]
2. Avi Alpert: Performative Scholarship [680]
3. Gail Finney: The Reign of the Amoeba: Further Thoughts about the Future of Comparative Literature [2,480]
4. Haun Saussy: Comparative Literature: The Next Ten Years [2,400]

Theories, Histories, Methods

5. Adam Miyashiro: Periodization [700]
6. César Domínguez: Margaret Higonnet and Marcel Cornis-Pope on comparative literary history [conversation: 5000] - new
7. Michael Rubenstein: Petro- [645]
8. Rita Felski: Hermeneutics of Suspicion [575]
9. Adam F. Kola: The Politics of the Archive in Semi-Peripheries [3780]
10. Thomas Beebee: What the World Thinks About Literature [5,000]
11. Jos Lavery: Minimal Criticism [2,530]
12. Timothy Brennan: Philology [600]
13. Jessica Berman with R.A. Judy and Rei Terada on affect theory [conversation: 5000] - new
14. Rebecca Walkowitz: Future Reading [1,990]
15. Rey Chow: Close Reading and the Global University (Notes on Localism) [2,290]

Worlds

16. Mads Rosendahl Thomsen: World Famous, Locally: Insights From the Study of International Canonization [2,130]
17. Christian Moraru: "World," "Globe," "Planet": Comparative Literature, Planetary Studies, and Cultural Debt after the Global Turn [5,000]
18. David Damrosch: World Literature as Figure and as Ground [2,860]
19. Nergis Ertürk: Baku, Literary Common [1,520]
20. Ban Wang: Aesthetic Humanity and the Great World Community: Kant and Kang Youwei [5,000]
21. Karen Thornber: Comparative Literature, World Literature, and Asia [2,850]

Areas and Regions

22. Christopher Bush: Areas: Bigger Than the Nation, Smaller than the World [1,200]
23. Guillermina de Ferrari, Ivonne del Valle (UC Berkeley), Francine Masiello (UC Berkeley), Wander Melo Miranda (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil), José Quiroga (Emory U), and Mariano Siskind (Harvard U) : Comparative Literature and Latin America [conversation: 5,000] - new
24. Waïl S. Hassan: Arabic and the Paradigms of Comparison [3,860]
25. Mohammad Salama: Fundamentalism [600]
26. Barbara Harlow and Neville Hoad in conversation with Aaron Bady:
    Why Must African Literature Be Defined? [conversation: 5,000] - new
27. Aaron Bady: Afropolitan [715]
28. Antonio Barrenechea: American Literature [740]

Justice, Difference, Inequality

29. Sophia McClennen: Human Rights [800]
30. Snehal Shingavi: Neoliberalism [860]
31. Sangeeta Ray: Postcolonial Studies [653]
32. Wendy Belcher: Discursive Possession [655]
33. Joey Slaughter: Counterinsurgency [710]
34. Jessica Berman: Trans- [710]
35. Jarrod Hayes: Queer Double Cross: Doing (It with) Comp Lit [3,975]
36. Susan Lanser: Comparatively Lesbian: Queer/Feminist Theory and the Sexuality of History [2,570]

Languages, Vernaculars, Translations

37. Lucas Klein: Institution, Translation, Nation, Metaphor [2,900]
38. Gayatri Spivak: The End of Languages? [420]
39. Subramanian Shankar: The Vernacular [641]
40. Jeanne-Marie Jackson: African Languages, Writ Small [1,830]
41. Yucong Hao: The Sinophone [660]
42. Brigitte Rath: Pseudotranslation [960]
43. Shaden Tageldin: Untranslatability [600]

Media

44. Jacob Edmond: Archive of the Now [3,780]
45. Jessica Pressman: Electronic Literature as Comparative Literature [3,380]
46. Dennis Tenen: Digital Displacement [2,840]
47. Jonathan E. Abel: Big Data [795]
48. Charlotte Eubanks: Next: New Orality [1050]
49. Ursula K. Heise in conversation with Franco Moretti:
    Comparative Literature and Computational Criticism [conversation: 5000] - new

Beyond the Human

50. Ursula Heise: Comparative Literature and the Environmental Humanities [4,930]
51. Mario Ortiz-Robles: Comparative Literature and Animal Studies [5,000]
52. Mara de Gennaro: Love Stories, or, Multispecies Ethnography, Comparative Literature, and their Entanglements [5,000]
53. Jennifer Wenzel: Climate Change [670]

3-5 pages, put together by Corinne Scheiner

Biography

Ursula K. Heise is the Marcia Howard Chair in Literary Studies at the Department of English and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, USA. Her books include Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species (2016) and The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities (2017).