Futures of Comparative Literature ACLA State of the Discipline Report

Futures of Comparative Literature is a cutting edgereport on the state of the discipline in Comparative Literature. Offering a broad spectrum of viewpoints from all career stages, a variety of different institutions, and many language backgrounds, this collection is fully global and diverse. The book includes previously unpublished interviews with key figures in the discipline as well as a range of different essays – short pieces on key topics and longer, in-depth pieces. It is divided intoseven sections: Futures of Comparative Literature; Theories, Histories, Methods; Worlds; Areas and Regions; Languages, Vernaculars, Translations; Media; Beyond the Human; and contains over 50 essays on topics such as: Queer Reading; Human Rights; Fundamentalism; Untranslatability; Big Data; Environmental Humanities. It also includes current facts and figures from the American Comparative Literature Association as well as a very useful general introduction, situating and introducing the material. Curated by an expert editorial team, this book captures what is at stake in the study of Comparative Literature today.

Ursula K. Heise: Introduction [3,000 words] - new Futures of Comparative Literature Eric Hayot: Institutional Inertia and the State of the Discipline [2,770] Avi Alpert: Performative Scholarship [680] Gail Finney: The Reign of the Amoeba: Further Thoughts about the Future of Comparative Literature [2,480] Haun Saussy: Comparative Literature: The Next Ten Years [2,400] Theories, Histories, Methods Adam Miyashiro: Periodization [700] César Domínguez: Margaret Higonnet and Marcel Cornis-Pope on comparative literary history [conversation: 5000] - new Michael Rubenstein: Petro- [645] Rita Felski: Hermeneutics of Suspicion [575] Adam F. Kola: The Politics of the Archive in Semi-Peripheries [3780] Thomas Beebee: What the World Thinks About Literature [5,000] Jos Lavery: Minimal Criticism [2,530] Timothy Brennan: Philology [600] Jessica Berman with R.A. Judy and Rei Terada on affect theory [conversation: 5000] - new Rebecca Walkowitz: Future Reading [1,990] Rey Chow: Close Reading and the Global University (Notes on Localism) [2,290] Worlds Mads Rosendahl Thomsen: World Famous, Locally: Insights From the Study of International Canonization [2,130] Christian Moraru: "World," "Globe," "Planet": Comparative Literature, Planetary Studies, and Cultural Debt after the Global Turn [5,000] David Damrosch: World Literature as Figure and as Ground [2,860] Nergis Ertürk: Baku, Literary Common [1,520] Ban Wang: Aesthetic Humanity and the Great World Community: Kant and Kang Youwei [5,000] Karen Thornber: Comparative Literature, World Literature, and Asia [2,850] Areas and Regions Christopher Bush: Areas: Bigger Than the Nation, Smaller than the World [1,200] 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 Waïl S. Hassan: Arabic and the Paradigms of Comparison [3,860] Mohammad Salama: Fundamentalism [600] Barbara Harlow and Neville Hoad in conversation with Aaron Bady:Why Must African Literature Be Defined? [conversation: 5,000] - new Aaron Bady: Afropolitan [715] Antonio Barrenechea: American Literature [740] Justice, Difference, Inequality Sophia McClennen: Human Rights [800] Snehal Shingavi: Neoliberalism [860] Sangeeta Ray: Postcolonial Studies [653] Wendy Belcher: Discursive Possession [655] Joey Slaughter: Counterinsurgency [710] Jessica Berman: Trans- [710] Jarrod Hayes: Queer Double Cross: Doing (It with) Comp Lit [3,975] Susan Lanser: Comparatively Lesbian: Queer/Feminist Theory and the Sexuality of History [2,570] Languages, Vernaculars, Translations Lucas Klein: Institution, Translation, Nation, Metaphor [2,900] Gayatri Spivak: The End of Languages? [420] Subramanian Shankar: The Vernacular [641] Jeanne-Marie Jackson: African Languages, Writ Small [1,830] Yucong Hao: The Sinophone [660] Brigitte Rath: Pseudotranslation [960] Shaden Tageldin: Untranslatability [600] Media Jacob Edmond: Archive of the Now [3,780] Jessica Pressman: Electronic Literature as Comparative Literature [3,380] Dennis Tenen: Digital Displacement [2,840] Jonathan E. Abel: Big Data [795] Charlotte Eubanks: Next: New Orality [1050] Ursula K. Heise in conversation with Franco Moretti:Comparative Literature and Computational Criticism [conversation: 5000] - new Beyond the Human Ursula Heise: Comparative Literature and the Environmental Humanities [4,930] Mario Ortiz-Robles: Comparative Literature and Animal Studies [5,000] Mara de Gennaro: Love Stories, or, Multispecies Ethnography, Comparative Literature, and their Entanglements [5,000] Jennifer Wenzel: Climate Change [670] Fact and Figures 3-5 pages, put together by Corinne Scheiner

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).