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Natalie
Melas, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, received her
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (English, French, Ancient Greek)
from UC Berkeley. Her areas of interest include transcultural theory
(between postcolonialism and globalism), the politics of disciplinary
histories, cultural comparison, postcolonial neo-formalism, turn-of-the-century
English literature, Anglophone and especially Francophone Caribbean
literature and theory, modern reconfigurations of antiquity, Homer.
She has published essays on the fate of the humanities in the contemporary
university, on incommensurability, on Joseph Conrad, and on French
Caribbean Literature. Her book, All the Difference in the World:
Postcoloniality and the Ends of Comparison, is forthcoming with
Stanford University Press. Her current project, provisionally entitled
The Poetics and Politics of Untimeliness, addresses the formation
of alternative modernities in the broken link between modernism
and colonialism around two incommensurable figures, the modern Greek
poet Constantin Cavafy and Aime Cesaire. |
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