Andrew N. Rubin

ANDREW N. RUBIN is a Scholar in Residence in English and Comparative Literature at Georgetown University, where he taught as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English since 2002.  In 2013, he was a recipient of the Lannan Literary Fellowship for his book, Archives of Authority: Empire, Culture and the Cold War (2012), in which he examines the critical tendencies of theories of world literature that claim that world literature owes nothing to the changing functions of the state and the public writer by providing a critical and historical account of the roots of that ahistoricism in the cultural politics of the Cold War. The co-editor of The Edward Said Reader (2000) and Adorno: A Critical Reader (2002), Rubin's work examined the relationship between aesthetics and politics, and the historically decisive the challenges facing the public writer in the twentieth century.  . His articles interrogate the development of the conjunctures of translation, transmission and replication alongside the changing of terrain of transnational modernism in his studies of an array of writers including Joseph Conrad, George Orwell, Erich Auerbach, and Theodor Adorno, among many others.  Most recently he was the guest editor of a special issue of Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, the first journal to examine the problems of Weltliteratur from the perspective of the Global South, where it was published bi-lingually in Cairo in both Arabic and English in 2014. He is currently working on a manuscript entitled, America's Last Taboo: the Holocaust, the Nakba, and the Reinvention of the West. He lives in Washington, DC. For more information, visit http://www.andrewnrubin.com/.