Advisory Board and Team
Director, Center for the Humanities; Professor and Acting Chair, Department of Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Cristina Vatulescu is Director of the Center for the Humanities and Professor and Acting Chair in the Department of Comparative Literature. Her most recent book is Reading the Archival Revolution: Declassified Soviet-Era Stories and Their Challenges (Stanford UP, 2024). She has edited or co-edited volumes and special issues including The Svetlana Boym Reader (Bloomsbury, 2018), an online Diacritics dossier on Teaching and Learning in an Archive Gone Digital (2020), and the Comparative Literature Studies special issue Archival Turns, Twists, and New Directions (2025). Her articles have appeared in Comparative Literature, Diacritics, Kritika, Poetics Today, Law and Literature, Literature/Film Quarterly, and The Brooklyn Rail. Her first book, Police Aesthetics: Literature, Film and The Secret Police (Stanford UP, 2010), won the Heldt Prize and the Outstanding Academic Title Award, sponsored by Choice. A new book project, Arts of Attention: A Literary Seedbank, extends her longstanding preoccupation with the ethics, politics, and potential of reading.