Anna Levett

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

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

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 Los Angeles Review of Books. 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 Öğüt that made its North American Premiere at Oberlin's Allen Memorial Art Museum last fall.

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

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

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