#  Jacob Emery 

Chair, Department of Comparative Literature; Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Indiana University Bloomington

PhD, 2006

 

 

 



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Contact: <jacemery@iu.edu>

**Interests:** Russian, Balkan, and Scandinavian literature. Comparative literature. Materialism and aesthetics. Rhetoric and figure. Theory. Science fiction. Utopian thought. Metafiction. Technologies of transcription. Kinship. Panoramic views and aerial photography. Puzzles.

**Selected Works:** Most recently, the book *Alternative Kinships* (2017); the co-edited *Svetlana Boym Reader* (2018); and essays including “The Mirror and the Mine: Photography in the Abyss of Labor” (forthcoming 2021), “Humbert Humbert as Mad Man: Art and Advertising in *Lolita*” (2019), “Thinking with Roland Barthes’s *Mythologies*” (2019), “Romantic Aesthetics and Cybernetic Fiction” (2018); “Sigizmund Krzhizhanovksy’s Poetics of Passivity” (2017), “The Customs House of Hades” (2017), “Species of Legitimacy: The Rhetoric of Succession around Russian Coins” (2016), and “Danilo Kiš’s Metafictional Genealogies” (2015).

**Education:** B.A. Iowa, 1998



 

 

 





 

 

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