Leadership & Staff

Xiaojue Wang is Associate Professor of Chinese Literature in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures. Her research interests are Chinese literature and culture from late imperial to contemporary periods, cultural Cold War studies in global Asias, Chinese-German intellectual connections, cultural memories, film and media studies, gender and sexuality, and comparative literature. She is the author of Modernity with a Cold War Face: Reimagining the Nation in Chinese Literature across the 1949 Divide (Harvard University Asia Center, 2013), which examines the diverse, dynamic cultural practices in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and overseas across the 1949 Chinese divide, and re-positions modern Chinese literature in the global context of the Cold War.

Karen Elizabeth Bishop is Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature and Founding Director of the Rutgers Translation Studies Initiative. She works on modern poetry and narrative; literary translation; human rights; and geopoetics. She is the author of The Space of Disappearance: A Narrative Commons in the Ruins of Argentine State Terror (SUNY Press, 2020) and the editor of Cartographies or Exile: A New Spatial Literacy (Routledge, 2016). 

Andrew Parker is Professor of French and Comparative Literature. His research concerns the history and practices of literary theory, especially post-war theory in France and its world-wide dissemination.  His most recent book is The Theorist’s Mother, which attends to traces of the maternal in the lives and works of canonical theorists from Marx and Freud to Lacan and Derrida.  Andrew was the editor and co-translator of Jacques Ranciere’s The Philosopher and His Poor, and has co-edited five other collections of essays.  A new book project, “Ventriloquisms,” explores interactions between body and voice across different literary traditions and media forms.

Before coming to Rutgers, Fatimah worked as an Administrative Assistant in the Educational Opportunity Fund Program (EOF), at College of Saint Elizabeth in Morristown, NJ. She earned a B.A. in Communication with a minor in Journalism and a M.S. in Organizational Change in Business Management from (CSE).