Fatima Naqvi is a

literary Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, plays, and poems. It includes both print and digital writing. In recent centuries, ...

and

film scholar Film studies is an academic discipline that deals with various theoretical, historical, and critical approaches to cinema as an art form and a medium. It is sometimes subsumed within media studies and is often compared to television studies. ...

whose research focuses on modern Austrian film, ecological films, affect studies and the interconnections of film, literature and architecture. She is currently the Elias W. Leavenworth Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Film and Media Studies at

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

. Her works include ''How We Learn where We Live: Thomas Bernhard, Architecture, and Bildung'' and ''The Literary and Cultural Rhetoric of Victimhood: Western Europe, 1970-2005''.

Career

Fatima Naqvi completed her B.A. from

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College ( ) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the America ...

in 1993 before receiving her Ph.D. from

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

in 2000. Naqvi was a professor at

Rutgers University Rutgers University ( ), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of three campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's C ...

from 2000 to 2019. She joined the faculty of the German department at

in 2019 and became Leavenworth Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Film and Media Studies two years later. Naqvi has been on the board of the ICI Berlin and Botstiber Institute for Austro-American Studies, on the editorial board of ''

The Germanic Review ''The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Routledge covering German studies, including German literature and culture, as well as German authors, intellectuals, and artists. The e ...

'', '' German Quarterly'', and Wiener Digitale Revue and on the review committees of the

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and the

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. She has also been an editor of ''Volltext: Zeitschrift für Literatur'', ''Investigations'' and ''Recherche – Zeitung für Wissenschaft''. Naqvi has been a guest professor at

(2017) and was a Fulbright Professor at the Center for Intermediality Studies at

Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz The University of Graz (, formerly: ''Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz'') is a public research university located in Graz, Austria. It is the largest and oldest university in Styria, as well as the second-largest and second-oldest university in A ...

(2013).

Bibliography

Books

*''The Literary and Cultural Rhetoric of Victimhood: Western Europe 1970-2005'' Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY, 2007. *''Trügerische Vertrautheit: Filme von Michael Haneke/ Deceptive Familiarity: Films by Michael Haneke'', Synema, Wien, 2010. *''How We Learn Where We Live: Thomas Bernhard, Architecture, and Bildung'' Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois, 2015. *''The White Ribbon'', Boydell & Brewer, Suffolk, 2020. *(with Roy Grundmann and Colin Root) ''Michael Haneke: Interviews'', University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, 2020. *''The Insulted Landscape: Postwar German Culture 1960–1995'' Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 2021.

Articles (selection)

*"Dialectic at a Standstill: The Discourse of Victimhood in Thomas Bernhard’s ‘Heldenplatz.’" '' The German Quarterly'', vol. 75, no. 4, 2002, pp. 408–21. *"The Abandoned Victim: Cosmology and History in Christoph Ransmayr and Anselm Kiefer". ''German Life and Letters'', 2004; 57: 219–235. *“After Life: Reflections on Elfriede Jelinek’s Work since 1995.” ''Modern Austrian Literature'', vol. 39, no. 3/4, 2006, pp. 3–13. *"A Melancholy Labor of Love, or Film Adaptation as Translation: Michael Haneke's Drei Wege zum See', ''

: Literature, Culture, Theory'', 2010; 81:4, 291-315. *"Unmögliche Möglichkeiten: Elfriede Jelineks paradoxe Topologie in „Angst. Störung.”" 2010. In Lob der Oberfläche. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill *"Ephemeral Spaces and Pneumatic Architecture: The Films of Nikolaus Geyrhalter". ''

New German Critique The ''New German Critique'' is a contemporary academic journal in German studies. It is associated with the Department of German Studies at Cornell University. It "covers 20th century political and social theory, philosophy, literature, film, medi ...

'' 1 November 2019; 46 (3 (138)): 125–155. *"Zum Fremdschämen. Ulrich Seidls Filmgrammatik" in Erk, Corina, and Brad Prager. ''Ulrich Seidl''. 2020. *"Kakanian Flyspecks: Film Criticism in Austria since the 1990s." ''New German Critique'' 1 November 2020; 47 (3 (141)): 21–31.

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