Regioning Differences: Translation and Critical Cartography

Emily Apter is Julius Silver Professor of French and Comparative Literature and Chair of Comparative Literature at New York University. Her books include Unexceptional Politics: On Obstruction, Impasse and the Impolitic (Verso, 2018); Against World Literature: On The Politics of Untranslatability (2013); Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon (2014); and The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature (2006). She is currently working on a book titled What Is Just Translation? Her essays have appeared in Political Concepts, October, PMLA, Comparative Literature, Art Journal, Third Text, Paragraph, Boundary 2, Artforum, and Critical Inquiry. In spring 2019 she was a Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. In 2017–18 she served as President of the American Comparative Literature Association and spent fall 2014 as a Humanities Council Fellow at Princeton University. In 2003–2004 she was a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient.