Rebecca Karni

Rebecca Karni completed her PhD in comparative literature at UCLA, earned a postdoctoral research fellowship and was a visiting scholar in Stanford University’s departments of English and comparative literature. Her teaching and research interests include 20th- and 21st-century world, global Anglophone, British, American, Asian British and Asian American, Japanese, Asian Diasporic and French/Francophone literatures; global, transnational, diaspora and postcolonial studies; the novel; narrative and literary theory; global film and visual culture; translation; aesthetics and ethics; affect theory; and ecocritical approaches to the study of literature, film and culture.

Karni’s recent publications have appeared in Comparative Literature Studies, The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro (ed. Andrew Bennett, Cambridge UP, 2023) and Kazuo Ishiguro (Twenty-First Century Perspectives, ed. Peter Sloane and Kristian Shaw, Manchester UP, 2023). She is currently completing a book-length study of the Japanese-British author Kazuo Ishiguro’s fiction in the contexts of world literature and reading transnationally and is also at work on a second book project focusing on aspects of style, translation and affect in late 20th- and 21st-century transnational novels and films.