Notes on Contributors
Javid Aliyev is an Associate Professor in the Translation and Interpreting Department at Istanbul Yeni Yuzyil University. He earned his PhD at Istanbul University with a dissertation on Turkish translations of James Joyce’s Ulysses, supported by the Turkey Scholarship Programme. His research has been published in various journals and edited volumes. He has also edited two monographs on translation studies, focusing on the Soviet school of translation theory and the intersection of phenomenology and translation. His academic interests include world literature, translation and cultural theory, literary medievalism, modernism, posthumanism, and Anthropocene studies.
David Damrosch is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University and the founding director of Harvard’s Institute for World Literature. His books include What Is World Literature? (2003), How to Read World Literature (2d ed. 2008), Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age (2020), and Around the World in 80 Books (2021), as well as two dozen edited or coedited volumes. His work has been translated into sixteen languages. He is currently completing a book entitled Scriptworlds: Writing Systems and Cultural Memory.
Deniz Gündoğan İbrişim is a literary scholar specializing in cultural trauma and memory studies, gender and sexuality studies, postcolonial theory, 20th- and 21st-century Anglophone literatures, and environmental humanities. As a Fulbright fellow, she earned her PhD in Comparative Literature at Washington University. From 2021 to 2023, she was a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Sabancı University, where she conducted a project on the literary representations of climate witnessing in the Mediterranean. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of literature in the Core Program at Kadir Has University and is working on her monograph Slow Trauma in Anglophone World Literature: Relational and Response-able Narratives from the Global South.
Dustin Lovett holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara with specializations in German and Translation Studies. His research concerns popular perceptions of science and the occult and their representation in literature and other media, as well as the development of conspiracy narratives. He is a Professor of Instruction at DePaul University where he serves as the German Program Director.
Luis A. Medina Cordova is Lecturer in Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham. His research focuses on contemporary Ecuadorian and Latin American literature, particularly the relationship between crises and World Literature. His first monograph, Imagining Ecuador (2022), explores contemporary Ecuadorian fiction and its connections to economic turmoil, migration and transnationalism. He is also the Principal Researcher of Viral Literature: Latin America, a project that documents real-time literary responses to Covid-19 in Spanish-speaking Latin America through the website
Anna Muenchrath is an Assistant Professor at the Florida Institute of Technology. She writes about world literature, book history, media studies, and literary sociology in the 20th and 21st centuries. She is the author of Making World Literature: Actors, Institutions, and Networks in the United States since 1890 (2024) and Selling Books with Algorithms (2024). Her writing has also appeared in Book History, College Literature, American Literature, and the Journal of Literary Theory.
Anhiti Patnaik teaches English at Cascadia College, Washington, and researches in the areas of Victorian Crime Fiction, Cultural Criminology, Queer Studies, and South Asian Studies. She is a recipient of the Kanner Fellowship in British Studies, Clark Library, UCLA and currently working on a comparative study of Oscar Wilde and Saadat Hasan Manto’s criminal trials.
Orhan Pamuk is one of the most prominent figures in contemporary world literature. His books have been translated into more than sixty languages; in addition to Nights of Plague (2021), they include his memoir/travelogue Istanbul: Memories and the City (2003) and the novels The White Castle (1985), The Black Book (1990), My Name is Red (1998), Snow (2002), and The Museum of Innocence (2008), as well as The Innocence of Objects, a catalogue accompanying the physical Museum of Innocence that he created in Istanbul while writing the novel. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006.
Nathanael Pree is of Australian and German heritage and was brought up in England. He completed his undergraduate studies at University College London and obtained his PhD from the University of Sydney, where he currently teaches. His research interests include transnational and comparative literature, in particular sites where contemporary and older voices intersect.
Danielle Terceiro is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Christianity in Sydney, Australia. She is a PhD candidate at Alphacrucis University College. Her chapter will form part of a PhD by publication examining multimodal texts that narrate history. Danielle has published many scholarly articles and popular pieces on literature and theology, and in her professional life has worked as an English teacher and an antitrust lawyer.
Mads Rosendahl Thomsen is Professor of Comparative Literature at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is chair of the Book Panel of the Ministry of Culture Denmark (2023–2026) and director of the Danish National Research Foundation-funded Center for Contemporary Cultures of Text (2025–). Thomsen is the author of four books, including Mapping World Literature (2008) and The New Human in Literature (2013), a co-author with Stefan Helgesson of Literature and the World (2019), and the editor of fourteen books, including World Literature: A Reader (2012), Danish Literature as World Literature (2017), Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis (2017), and The Bloomsbury Handbook of Posthumanism (2020).
Delia Ungureanu is Executive Director of Harvard’s Institute for World Literature and Associate Professor of literary theory in the Department of Literary Studies at the University of Bucharest. She is the author of Time Regained: World Literature and Cinema (2021), From Paris to Tlön: Surrealism as World Literature (2017), and Poetica Apocalipsei: Războiul cultural în revistele literare românești (1944–1947) (The Poetics of Apocalypse: The cultural war in Romanian literary magazines, 1944–1947, 2012). She has also published essays on the transmedial world circulation of ideas and the global spread of surrealism.