Anna Levett
(she/her/hers)
- Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
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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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Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and French Anna Levett Receives Prestigious ACLS Fellowship
The ACSL Fellowship focuses its support on early-career, untenured scholars. In addition to funding, the award will allow Levett to decrease her teaching load and devote more time to her current book project on surrealism in Arab literature.