Biography:

Rebecca L. Walkowitz is Associate Professor and Associate Director of Graduate Studies in the English Department at Rutgers University. She is also an affiliate faculty member in the Comparative Literature Program. She serves on the Executive Committee of the Center for Cultural Analysis. In 2007, she launched a new seminar series on Modernism and Globalization.

Professor Walkowitz is the author of Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation (Columbia, 2006; paperback 2007), which was awarded Honorable Mention for the 2008 Perkins Prize. She is also the editor or coeditor of seven books, including Immigrant Fictions: Contemporary Literature in an Age of Globalization (Wisconsin, 2007), Bad Modernisms (with Douglas Mao, Duke, 2006), The Turn to Ethics (with Marjorie Garber and Beatrice Hanssen, Routledge, 2000), and Media Spectacles (with Marjorie Garber and Jann Matlock, Routledge, 1993). Her articles have appeared in PMLA, NOVEL, Modern Language Quarterly, ELH, Modern Drama, and Contemporary Literature. Recent publications include an article in NOVEL on Kazuo Ishiguro, translation, and the new world literature; an article in PMLA, authored with Douglas Mao, on "the new modernist studies"; and a book chapter in The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel on the post-consensus English novel and globalization. An essay on "comparison literature" is forthcoming from New Literary History.

She is an editor of the journal Contemporary Literature and the program chair of the Modernist Studies Association. She also serves on the advisory boards of the Joseph Conrad Society and the American Comparative Literature Association.

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