Futures of Comparative Literature

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).

• List of figures Editorial board List of contributors Introduction: comparative literature and the new humanities URSULA K. HEISEFutures of comparative literature Institutional inertia and the state of the discipline ERIC HAYOTPerformative scholarship AVRAM ALPERTThe reign of the amoeba: further thoughts about the future of comparative literature GAIL FINNEYComparative literature: the next ten years HAUN SAUSSYTheories, histories, methods Periodization ADAM MIYASHIROComparative literary history: a conversation with Marcel Cornis-Pope and Margaret R. Higonnet CESAR DOMINGUEZPetrocriticism MICHAEL RUBENSTEINThe politics of the archive in semi-peripheries ADAM F. KOLAWhat the world thinks about literature THOMAS O. BEEBEEMinimal criticism JOS LAVERYPhilology TIMOTHY BRENNANComparative literature and affect theory: a conversationwith R. A. Judy and Rei Terada JESSICA BERMANComparatively lesbian: queer/feminist theory and the sexuality of history SUSAN S. LANSERQueer double cross: doing (it with) comp lit JARROD HAYESTrans JESSICA BERMANFuture reading REBECCA L. WALKOWITZClose reading and the global university (notes on localism) REY CHOWWorlds World famous, locally: insights from the study of international canonization MADS ROSENDAHL THOMSEN“World,” “Globe,” “Planet”: comparative literature, planetary studies, and cultural debt after the global turn CHRISTIAN MORARUWorld literature as figure and as ground DAVID DAMROSCHBaku, literary common NERGIS ERTURKAesthetic humanity and the great world community: Kant and Kang Youwei BAN WANGComparative literature, world literature, and Asia KAREN THORNBERNeoliberalism SNEHAL SHINGAVICounterinsurgency JOSEPH R. SLAUGHTERHuman rights SOPHIA A. MCCLENNENAreas and regions Areas: bigger than the nation, smaller than the world CHRISTOPHER BUSHComparative literature and Latin American literary studies: a conversation with Jose Quiroga, Wander Melo Miranda, Erin Graff Zivin, Francine Masiello, Sarah Ann Wells, Ivonne del Valle, and Mariano Siskind GUILLERMINA DE FERRARIArabic and the paradigms of comparison WAIL S. HASSANPostcolonial studies SANGEETA RAYFundamentalism MOHAMMAD SALAMAAfropolitan AARON BADYWhy must African literature be defined? An interview with Aaron Bady BARBARA HARLOW AND NEVILLE HOADHemispheric American literature ANTONIO BARRENECHEALanguages, vernaculars, translations Reading and speaking for translation: de-institutionalizing the institutions of literary studyLUCAS KLEINThe end of languages? GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAKThe vernacular S. SHANKARAfrican languages, writ smallJEANNE-MARIE JACKSONThe Sinophone YUCONG HAOPseudotranslation BRIGITTE RATHUntranslatability SHADEN M. TAGELDINMedia Archive of the now JACOB EDMONDElectronic literature as comparative literature JESSICA PRESSMANVisual-quantitative approaches to the intellectual history of the field: a close reading DENNIS TENENBig data JONATHAN E. ABELNext: The new orality CHARLOTTE EUBANKSComparative literature and computational criticism: a conversation with Franco Moretti URSULA K. HEISEPlatforms of the imagination: stages of electronic literature Mexico 2015 SUSANA GONZALEZ AKTORIES AND MARIA ANDREA GIOVINE YANEZBeyond the human Comparative literature and the environmental humanities URSULA K. HEISEComparative literature and animal studies MARIO ORTIZ ROBLESMultispecies stories, subaltern futures MARA DE GENNAROClimate change JENNIFER WENZELFacts and figures Comparative literature in the United States: facts and figures COMPILED BY THE ACLA AND CORINNE SCHEINERIndex