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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 麻豆视频, she teaches translation studies, critical theory, global modernism, postcolonial studies, and Middle East and Mediterranean studies.

Spring 2026

Introduction to Literary Translation: Theory, History, Practice 鈥 CMPL 250

Introduction to Literary Translation: Theory, History, Practice 鈥 CRWR 250

Advanced Translation Workshop: Poetry 鈥 CMPL 350

Advanced Translation Workshop: Poetry 鈥 CRWR 350

Senior Capstone Project 鈥 CMPL 400

  • The Los Angeles Review of Books, May 14th, 2024
  • 鈥淎n Excerpt from Your Voice Saw/Your Voice Lives/We Go On (2019), by Habib Tengour,鈥 Qui Parle, December 2023
  • The Los Angeles Review of Books, April 1st, 2023.
  • Expressions maghr茅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 鈥" 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 Polizzotti鈥檚 new book Why Surrealism Matters for the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Anna Levett Translates Excerpt of Poem Published in 鈥淨ui Parle鈥

Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Anna Levett has translated an excerpt of Habib鈥檚 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 脰臒眉t that made its North American Premiere at 麻豆视频'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, , 鈥樷楨cstatic Communities: Sufism, Modernism, and Political Possibility in Abdelwahab Meddeb's Talismano,鈥欌 in the winter 2020 issue of Expressions maghr茅bines. This special issue is devoted to the work of Tunisian writer, translator, and public intellectual Abdelwahab Meddeb (1946-2014).

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