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 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 essays have appeared or are forthcoming in several anthologies and in journals such as New Literary History, NOVEL, PMLA, Modern Language Quarterly, ELH, Modern Drama, and Contemporary Literature.

Professor Walkowitz's teaching and research areas include twentieth-century British, Irish, and global Anglophone literature, the contemporary novel, modernism, world literature, translation and the history of the book, and narrative theory. In addition, she is interested in issues of cosmopolitanism, postcolonial theory, Englishness and Jewishness, and U. S. literature and culture after 1945. At Rutgers, she is a member of the Executive Committee of the Center for Cultural Analysis. In 2007, she launched a new seminar series on Modernism and Globalization.

She is currently at work on a book entitled "After the National Paradigm: Translation, Comparison, and the New World Literature," which considers the effects of globalization on national paradigms of literary culture and argues for the emergence of new forms of “comparative writing” in contemporary transnational literature. Chapters will include studies of novelists, translators, and anthologists such as Jamaica Kincaid, Kazuo Ishiguro, Caryl Phillips, and J. M. Coetzee. An article from the project has recently appeared in NOVEL. Other current work includes an essay for PMLA, authored with Douglas Mao, on "the new modernist studies"; a book chapter on the post-consensus English novel and globalization for The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel; and an article on J.M. Coetzee and "comparison literature" for an New Literary History special issue on "Comparison." Professor Walkowitz is an editor of the journal Contemporary Literature; she served as an associate editor from 2004-2008.

In 2007-2008, she taught a large lecture course on violence and creativity, small undergraduate courses on the history and theory of critical and uncritical reading and on James Joyce and the literature of explicitness, and a grarduate seminar on modernism and transnationalism. She is on leave in 2008-2009.

Professor Walkowitz serves on the boards of several major professional organizations. She is the program chair of the Modernist Studies Association, a trustee of the Joseph Conrad Society, and a member of the advisory board of the American Comparative Literature Association. From 2004-2008, she served on the executive committee of the MLA Division on Twentieth-Century English Literature. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the Whiting Foundation, the Institute for the Humanities at UW-Madison, the University of Wisconsin Vilas Foundation, the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission, and the U.S. Department of Education.

From 2000-2007, she taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she founded the Contemporary Literature Colloquium, a research group of faculty members and graduate students who work in the areas of literature and culture after 1945. In March 2005, she received the the University of Wisconsin's Class of 1955 Distinguished Teaching Award. In September 2006, she received the Phillip R. Certain Distinguished Faculty Award, which honors the most distinguished faculty member to receive tenure in the College of Letters & Science in the preceding year.

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