A.B.                  Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges

M.Phil.               University of Sussex

Ph.D.                 Harvard University

Professor Walkowitz is the author of Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation (2006; paperback 2007), which was awarded Honorable Mention for the 2008 Perkins Prize, and editor or co-editor of seven books, including Immigrant Fictions: Contemporary Literature in an Age of Globalization (2007), Bad Modernisms (with Douglas Mao, 2006), and The Turn to Ethics (with Marjorie Garber and Beatrice Hanssen, 2000). Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in several anthologies and in journals such as PMLA, NOVEL, Modern Language Quarterly, ELH, and Modern Drama.  A trustee of the Joseph Conrad Society and a member of the Executive Committee of the MLA Division on Twentieth-Century English Literature, she has served as Associate Editor of Contemporary Literature since 2004 and will become Co-Editor in June 2008.  At Rutgers, she is a member of the Executive Committee of the Center for Cultural Analysis and is the organizer of the Modernism & Globalization Seminar Series.

Professor Walkowitz’s diverse teaching and research areas include the twentieth- and twenty-first-century British, Irish, and Anglophone novel, modernism, the new 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. She is currently at work on After the National Paradigm: Translation, Comparison, and the New World Literature, a project that 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. Forthcoming 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 Novel: Minority Culture, Multiculturalism, and Transnational Comparison."

She is the recipient of a Marshall Scholarship, a Javits Fellowship, an ACLS Fellowship, and three teaching prizes from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.