Curating Worlds

Emma Bond is professor of Italian and comparative studies at the University of Oxford and a fellow and tutor at St Hugh’s College. Her books include Writing Migration through the Body, and she has served as an advisor or guest curator for a number of museums, including V&A Dundee, the Watt Institution, and the Wardlaw Museum.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. OrientationChapter 1. Collecting Chapter 2. Curating Chapter 3. Display Chapter 4. Storage Chapter 5. Conservation Chapter 6. Restitution Conclusion: Deaccession  NotesBibliography

“Curating Worlds proposes an exhilarating new way of understanding contemporary world literature by examining its dynamic relationships to material practices that orient readers within spatial and temporal trajectories. Dazzling in its originality and ambition, and written in engaging prose, the work comes off so successfully that the reader hardly recognizes the audacious novelty of the project.” —Rebecca Falkoff, University of Texas at Austin “Bond has mastered and synopsized the gigantic body of literature that constitutes museology, curation, collecting, and world literature. She writes with a rare elegance and erudition that makes for a lively and scholarly book. Curating Worlds is crucially adding to the blossoming field of ‘world literature.’” —Allan Hepburn, McGill University