Katie Trumpener

Class of Fall 2001

Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and Film Studies

Yale University

Nurse's Song: The Bourgeois Psyche in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Europe

"When Do We Get Our Cinema?" Stalinist Populism and East German Media Critique” in Via Transversa: Lost Cinema of the Former Eastern Bloc (National Museum of Estonia, 2008). "The Making of Child Readers" in James Chandler, ed., The Cambridge History of British Romanticism 2009 "Austen in the World: New Women, Imperial Vistas" in Claudia Johnson and Clara Tuitt, eds., Blackwell Companion to Jane Austen. 2008 The Arabian Nights, Arab-European Literary Influence, and the Lineages of the Novel" (with Rebecca Johnson and Richard Maxwell) (MLQ 68:2) "World Music, World Literature. A Geopolitical View." In Haun Saussy, ed. Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization. (Johns Hopkins Univeristy Press, 2006) "Drowning Out the Newsreel" (London Review of Books 31:5, 2009) "The Stasi was my Eckermann." (Field-Day Review 2, 2006)

Katie Trumpener is Emily Sanford Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Yale. She is the author of The Divided Screen, about German cinema. She was working on another book on modernist memories of early childhood, and an edited volume on the afterlives of the nineteenth-century panorama, alongside essays on Communist conceptions of world literature; the relationship between psychoanalytic and historicist thought; and the role of conversation in the modern political novel.