Andrew N. Rubin
Professor Andrew N. Rubin is the author of Archives of Authority: Empire, Culture, and the Cold War (Princeton 2012) , and has co-edited the collected works of Edward Said (The Edward Said Reader) as well as Adorno: A Critical Reader. Rubin has taught as a Professor of English at Georgetown University, and has written extensively on the work of Theodor Adorno, Edward Said, and George Orwell, among others for journals such as The South Atlantic Quarterly, History of the Present, Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, The New Statesman, and The Nation. Rubin’s last book Archives of Authority was the recipient of a Lannan Fellowship. His research interests include Postcolonial and Critical Theory, theories of world literature, Transnationalism Modernisms, and Twentieth Century Anglophone Literature. He lives in Washington, DC.
Phone: 202-492-6203
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By apprehending the Holocaust and al-Nakba together, Rubin argues that by interpreting the work of Said and Arendt together, we may better understand how Jews and Arabs belong to the same stream of European History.
suddenly witnessed the modes of social communication multiply in ways that were scarcely imaginable even a decade ago, Orwell's critical attention to words and their deployment in social space can raise us above the debased rhetoric that usurps consciousness and disables critique. Perhaps then we will more fully realize how warfare is concealed by metaphors and metonymies that help to maintain the alienation of language from reality and ourselves from the world in which live.
—Anne McClintock, Simon de Beauvoir Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Examining the period after World War II, when the United States took on an imperial role previously played by Britain, this remarkable book shows the ways in which Western cultural policies, in opposition to Soviet cultural-political efforts, helped literary culture establish certain authors, while excluding others from attention, leading to a new phase of world literature. The research is extensive and impressive.”
–——Jonathan Arac, Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh
“Enacting a kind of literary archaeology, Rubin’s illuminating and necessary book traces the administration of literary culture and its shift from Anglo to American imperial power. Systematic without being sensationalistic, Rubin’s journey through the archive allows us to see the epochal changes of Cold War culture that are still with us in ever greater relief.”
—Ammiel Alcalay, CUNY Graduate Center
"His new book Archives of Authority, in addition to being a groundbreaking and original piece of research and scholarship, is a further illustration of this. Refusing all the mystification and obfuscation of so much that passes for literary or cultural studies, Professor Rubin rolls up his sleeves and delves deeply, more deeply I would claim than anyone before him, into the interstices of one of our culture’s most neglected legacies: the literary and cultural archive of the national security state." —Ammiel Alcalay, CUNY Graduate Center
“This is an exciting exploration of important categories in world literature, a lucid explanation for its rise and fall, and an excellent argument for its careful reconsideration.”
—Paul Bové, Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh
“Rubin reminds us how the insights of a literary way of thinking to the assessment of geopolitical history are inimitable. This meticulously researched and broad-minded book reopens the terrain of oppositional criticism embedded in a humanist pedagogy during an epoch that perversely fetishizes its own catastrophic anti-intellectualism as resistance.”
—Stathis Gourgouris, Professor of Comparative Literature, Columbia University
“This rigorous and intrinsically interesting book is the academic equivalent of a Cold War spy novel, replete with intriguing archival findings and the implication of its author in the bureaucratic Kafkaesque structure of CIA document censorship. It is sure to appeal to a wide audience in literature, Cold War history, political science, and law.”--Emily Apter
By apprehending the Holocaust and al-Nakba together, Rubin argues that by interpreting the work of Said and Arendt together, we may better understand how Jews and Arabs belong to the same stream of European History.
suddenly witnessed the modes of social communication multiply in ways that were scarcely imaginable even a decade ago, Orwell's critical attention to words and their deployment in social space can raise us above the debased rhetoric that usurps consciousness and disables critique. Perhaps then we will more fully realize how warfare is concealed by metaphors and metonymies that help to maintain the alienation of language from reality and ourselves from the world in which live.
—Anne McClintock, Simon de Beauvoir Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Examining the period after World War II, when the United States took on an imperial role previously played by Britain, this remarkable book shows the ways in which Western cultural policies, in opposition to Soviet cultural-political efforts, helped literary culture establish certain authors, while excluding others from attention, leading to a new phase of world literature. The research is extensive and impressive.”
–——Jonathan Arac, Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh
“Enacting a kind of literary archaeology, Rubin’s illuminating and necessary book traces the administration of literary culture and its shift from Anglo to American imperial power. Systematic without being sensationalistic, Rubin’s journey through the archive allows us to see the epochal changes of Cold War culture that are still with us in ever greater relief.”
—Ammiel Alcalay, CUNY Graduate Center
"His new book Archives of Authority, in addition to being a groundbreaking and original piece of research and scholarship, is a further illustration of this. Refusing all the mystification and obfuscation of so much that passes for literary or cultural studies, Professor Rubin rolls up his sleeves and delves deeply, more deeply I would claim than anyone before him, into the interstices of one of our culture’s most neglected legacies: the literary and cultural archive of the national security state." —Ammiel Alcalay, CUNY Graduate Center
“This is an exciting exploration of important categories in world literature, a lucid explanation for its rise and fall, and an excellent argument for its careful reconsideration.”
—Paul Bové, Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh
“Rubin reminds us how the insights of a literary way of thinking to the assessment of geopolitical history are inimitable. This meticulously researched and broad-minded book reopens the terrain of oppositional criticism embedded in a humanist pedagogy during an epoch that perversely fetishizes its own catastrophic anti-intellectualism as resistance.”
—Stathis Gourgouris, Professor of Comparative Literature, Columbia University
“This rigorous and intrinsically interesting book is the academic equivalent of a Cold War spy novel, replete with intriguing archival findings and the implication of its author in the bureaucratic Kafkaesque structure of CIA document censorship. It is sure to appeal to a wide audience in literature, Cold War history, political science, and law.”--Emily Apter
"These essays, together with The Edward Said Reader, are a timely consolidation of the work of arguably the most influential intellectual of our time. "--The Guardian
‘Edward Said is among the truly important intellectuals of our century’-- Nadine Gordimer
Lannan Writing Residency. Summer 2007.
Lafferty Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching. Georgetown University, 2007.
Nominated for (B)Russels’ Tribunal International Human Rights Award, 2006.
Junior Faculty Fellowship. Georgetown University, Fall 2005.
Graduate School Summer Fellowship. Georgetown University, 2003.
Edward W. Said Research Fellowship. 1995–2002.
Stern Fellowship. Columbia University, 2000.
Phi Beta Kappa. Brown University, 1992.
Magna Cum Laude. Brown University, 1992.
Honor’s Thesis Award. Brown University, 1992.
President’s Fellowship. Columbia University, 1995–2002.