Welcome to my website. I am the Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor, and Professor of Comparative Literature, at Stanford University. I am also the founding editor of the e-journal, Occasion: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities and a Contributing Editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books. I blog for Truthout‘s Public Intellectual Project and Arcade, and write occasionally for The Boston Review. I am on the Academic Steering and Advocacy Committee for the Open Library of Humanities.





