Trans Area Literature Collective
The Trans Area Literature Collective consists of scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literatures across media, with special interests in global, interdisciplinary, and multilingual perspectives. Our work draws on area-studies models to expand beyond comparative approaches to literary studies. We challenge the power inequities inherent in traditional practices of comparison, focusing on histories of colonialism and imperialism, the politics of minority and indigenous cultures, and questions of race and gender. These research commitments also inform our pedagogy in the undergraduate and graduate classroom.
TALC Members
Mellon Assistant Professor, Cinema & Media Arts
Cinema and Media, Diaspora and Queer Theory
Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities
Caribbean, Early American, Animal Studies
Assistant Professor of English
Political Theology, Critical Theory, Continental Philosophy
Professor of Cinema & Media Arts and English
Film & Media Studies, Critical Theory, Environmental Studies
Max Kade Foundation Chair in German Studies | Professor of Cinema & Media Arts | Chair, Department of German, Russian and East European Studies
Media Arts, Aesthetic Theory, Exile and Border Studies
Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of English, Professor of Comparative Literature
Americas, Translation, Black Atlantic
Assistant Professor of English
U.S.- Mexico Border Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Environmental Humanities
Associate Professor of English
Assistant Professor of English
Global South Comparatism (South Asian and African Anglophone literatures), Critical Translation Studies, Sound and Media
Associate Professor of English
Assistant Professor of German Studies
Poetry and Poetics, Critical Theory, Memory Studies
Associate Professor 
Assistant Professor of Asian Studies
Korean literature and culture, translation theory, and gender studies
TALC Events
2020: TRANS AREA, TRANSMEDIA: rEADING THE nEOLIBERAL pRESENT
2019: tRANS-aREA pRAXIS: anGLOPHONE AND bEYOND
