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Anna Levett

(she/her/hers)

  • Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature

Education

  • BA, University of Pennsylvania
  • PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Biography

Anna Levett specializes in Mediterranean studies and global modernism, with particular interest in twentieth-century French, Francophone, and Arabic literature and film. Her current book project considers the political, ethical, and historical challenges that arise from the reception of surrealism in the Arab world.

At 厙ぴ勛圖, she teaches translation studies, critical theory, global modernism, postcolonial studies, and Middle East and Mediterranean studies.

Spring 2027

Introduction to Comparative Literature CMPL 200

Introduction to Comparative Literature ENGL 275

Global Surrealisms CMPL 322

Global Surrealisms FREN 322

Advanced Translation Workshop: Poetry CMPL 350

Advanced Translation Workshop: Poetry CRWR 350

Senior Capstone Project CMPL 400

  • The Los Angeles Review of Books, May 14th, 2024
  • An Excerpt from Your Voice Saw/Your Voice Lives/We Go On (2019), by Habib Tengour, Qui Parle, December 2023
  • The Los Angeles Review of Books, April 1st, 2023.
  • Expressions maghr矇bines, vol. 19, no. 2, winter 2020, pp.77-99.
  •  Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 34.8 (July 2017), pp. 687-706.

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Pauline Yu Fellow in Comparative Literature (2022-2023)

Notes

Anna Levett Article, Interview Published

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Anna Levett published the article " It appeared as part of the roundtable "Ecocritical Terrains: Rethinking Tamazghan and Middle Eastern Landscapes" in the flagship area studies journal International Journal of Middle East Studies.  with Robyn Creswell, a scholar and translator of Arabic, in Reading in Translation.

Anna Levett Review Appears in L.A. Review of Books

Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Anna Levett Mark Polizzottis new book Why Surrealism Matters for the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Anna Levett Translates Excerpt of Poem Published in Qui Parle

Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Anna Levett has translated an excerpt of Habibs long poem Your Voice Saw/Your Voice Lives/We Go On in . Originally published in French in 2019, the poem is an ode to the Palestinian writer Mahmoud Darwish.

Anna Levett Essay Published in "Los Angeles Review of Books"

Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Anna Levett published an essay, "Can Art Save Your Life?: On Revolution, Political Prisoners, Climate Activism, and Pink Floyd," in the . The essay was inspired by discussions with Professor Levett's students in her CMPL 237 course, "Art of Revolution," as well as by Bakunin's Barricade, an installation by the Kurdish-Turkish artist Ahmet 羹t that made its North American Premiere at 厙ぴ勛圖's Allen Memorial Art Museum last fall.

Anna Levett Publishes Review in Journal of North African Studies

Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Anna Levett has published a review of The Albert Memmi Reader in the .

 

Anna Levett publishes review in Reading in Translation

Visiting assistant professor of comparative literature Anna Levett published a review of Under the Dome: Walks with Paul Celan, translated by Rosmarie Waldrop, in . 

Anna Levett publishes article

Anna Levett, visiting assistant professor of comparative literature, , Ecstatic Communities: Sufism, Modernism, and Political Possibility in Abdelwahab Meddeb's Talismano, in the winter 2020 issue of Expressions maghr矇bines. This special issue is devoted to the work of Tunisian writer, translator, and public intellectual Abdelwahab Meddeb (1946-2014).

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