ALLISON WEINER

Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Yale University (2008). Currently the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature, she specializes in literary theory, focusing particularly on post-structural theory and contemporary continental philosophy in her scholarship and teaching. Her work explores the ethical exigencies of literature from the 19th and 20th century, as well as contemporary, traditions—American, continental, and Anglophone in particular—, extending theoretical and philosophical questions about the human, alterity, and trauma within and across disciplinary contexts. She is the co-editor (with Simon Morgan Wortham) of Encountering Derrida: Legacies and Futures of Deconstruction (Continuum, 2007) and the author of forthcoming articles on Henry James and Maurice Blanchot. Her current work explores intersections of ethics, the body, and disability.

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