Doctoral Student Fellow
Doctoral Student Fellow; PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, Graduate School of Arts & Science
Project: Modern Poses: The Subject of Early-twentieth Century Japanese and Latin American Literatures
Amy Obermeyer is a doctoral candidate in New York University’s Department of Comparative Literature. Her research focuses on literary subjectivity in Japanese and Latin American literature from the late-nineteenth through early-twentieth centuries, particularly as manifest in the Japanese shishousetsu and modernismo in Latin America. Drawing from a main corpus consisting of authors such as José Asunción Silva, Tayama Katai, Aurora Cáceres, Tamura Toshiko, Teresa de la Parra, and Uno Chiyo, her dissertation interrogates at once the notion of the world (and world literature) and the subject within, with a particular focus on how gender shapes these articulations on a foundational level. Her principle theoretical interests include phenomenology, Marxist theory, and feminist theory. Amy has been a member of the editorial collective at Barricade: A Journal of Antifascism and Translation since its establishment in 2017, and she was previously a co-organizer of NYU’s Feminist Reading Group.