Faculty Fellow
Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, FAS
Illegible Archives? The Challenges of Reading an Archival Revolution
Cristina Vatulescu received her PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard in 2005 and came to NYU after a year as a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Her book, Police Aesthetics: Literature, Film and The Secret Police (Stanford UP, 2010), a study of the relationships between cultural and policing practices in twentieth century Eastern Europe, won the 2011 Heldt Prize and the 2011 Outstanding Academic Title Award, sponsored by Choice. She is also the co-editor of The Svetlana Boym Reader (Bloomsbury, 2018), and a Perspectives on Europe special issue on Secrecy (2014). Her articles have appeared in diacritics, Comparative Literature, Poetics Today, Law and Literature, Film and Literature Quarterly, and The Brooklyn Rail. Cristina is currently finishing a book project entitled Illegible Archives? Challenges of Reading an Archival Revolution, and has started work on a new book project entitled Arts of Attention: A Literary Seed Bank.