Areas of Research/Interest: 19th- and 20th-century French and comparative literatures; Francophone studies; cultural studies; critical theory.

External Affiliations: Editor of a book series, Translation/Transnation, Princeton University Press, and serves on the editorial boards of PMLA, Comparative Literature, October and Signs.

Fellowships/Honors: Guggenheim Fellow (2003), Mellon, Rockefeller, ACLS, NEH, College Art Association.

Select Publications:

"The Human in the Humanities", October 96 (Spring 2001).

"D´une fin de siècle à l´autre" Critique 637-638 (June-July 2000).

Continental Drift: From National Characters to Virtual Subjects (University of Chicago Press, 1999).

Fetishism as Cultural Discourse, ed. with William Pietz (Cornell University Press, 1991).

Feminizing the Fetish: Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the-Century France (Cornell University Press, 1991).

André Gide and the Codes of Homotextuality (Stanford French and Italian Studies 48, Anma Libri, 1987).