Kyle Wanberg

Clinical Associate Professor

Biography

Kyle Wanberg is Clinical Associate Professor in Global Liberal Studies at New York University. His Ph.D. in Comparative Literature was awarded in 2012 by the University of California, Irvine. His research areas include decolonial literature, theory, and translation. He has published work in The European Journal of English Studies, Comparative Literature Studies, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, and Journal of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature. His first single-author book, Maps of Empire, is forthcoming from University of Toronto.

Education

Ph.D. - University of California, Irvine

Teaching and Research Interests

Anti-colonialism, Orature, Anglophone and Francophone Sub-Saharan African Literatures, Middle-Eastern Literatures, Native American Literatures

Selected Honors and Awards

Liberal Studies New Faculty Research Award

UC California Studies Consortium Award, the University of California Humanities Research Institute

Hayman Dissertation Fellowship, the University of California Interdisciplinary Psychoanalytic Consortium

Dorothy and Donald Strauss Endowed Dissertation and Thesis Fellowship

Selected Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:

Wanberg, Kyle. “The Writer’s Inadequate Response: Elizabeth Costello and the Influence of Kafka and Hofmannsthal” in EJES: The European Journal of English Studies 20.2, London: Routledge, 2016 (152-165).

Wanberg, Kyle. “Secrecy, Lies, and the Exilic Imagination in The Pessoptimist” in Middle Eastern Literatures 18.2, London: Routledge, 2015 (184-201).

Wanberg, Kyle. “Disrupting the Center: Toward a Theory of Global Aesthetics” in Global Humanities: Studies in Histories, Cultures, and Societies 1.1, Berlin: Neofelis Verlag. January 2015 (170-185).

Wanberg, Kyle. “Ghostwriting History: Subverting the Reception of Le Regard du roi and Le Devoir de violence,” in Comparative Literature Studies 50.4, University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2013 (589-617).

Wanberg, Kyle. “Echoes of the Ant People: Vocal Traces and Writing Practices in a Translation of ‘O‘odham Orature,” in Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/ Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée 40.3, Edmonton, AB: University of Alberta Press, September 2013 (271-288).

Wanberg, Kyle. “Pedagogy Against the State: The Ban on Ethnic Studies in Arizona” in Journal of Pedagogy 4.1, Special Issue “Neoliberalism, Pedagogy and the Curriculum”: Trnava, Slovakia: Versita, 2013 (15-35).

Book Chapters:

Wanberg, Kyle. “Everything in Chains: The Aesthetics of Globalization” in Literature and Economics. Matthew Sebold and Michelle Chihara (Eds.). New York: Routledge (forthcoming 2017).

Wanberg, Kyle. “Translations of Identity: Eschewing Authority in Narratives about White Colonials in Heart of Darkness and Le Regard du Roi” in At the Crossroads: Readings of the Postcolonial and the Global in African Literature and Visual Art. Ghirmai Negash et. al. (Ed.). Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2014 (71-83).

Wanberg, Kyle. “A Moving Pedagogy: Teaching Global Literature through Translation,” in Critical Pedagogy and Global Literature: Worldly Teaching, Masood Raja, et. al. (Ed.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 (113-130).