Anca Parvulescu

Bio

Anca Parvulescu is the Liselotte Dieckmann Professor in Comparative Literature and professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Laughter: Notes on a Passion (2010); The Traffic in Women’s Work: East European Migration and the Making of Europe (2014); and, with Manuela Boatcă, Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires (2022). Her current book project is Face and Form: Physiognomy in Literary Modernism (2025).

Contributions

Inter-imperiality: Vying Empires, Gendered Labor, and the Literary Arts of Alliance by Laura Doyle

From the Print Journal

Among the most important books in literary studies in the last decade, Laura Doyle’s Inter-imperiality: Vying Empires, Gendered Labor, and the Literary Arts of Alliance deserves sustained attention. Situated between comparative literary studies, world history, decolonial theory, and gender studies, Inter-imperiality recasts literary history as a counterpoint to the world history of empires. Profoundly interdisciplinary, it makes a forceful case for the relevance of literary analysis to the comparative study of empires—and coloniality.