Fatima Naqvi
Associate Member
German, Austrian, and Film Studies
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Vita
Fatima Naqvi is associate professor in the department of Germanic, Russian and East European Languages and Literatures at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She teaches courses on Vienna 1900, as well as on post-war German and Austrian literature and film. After her B.A. from Dartmouth College, she received her Ph.D. in German literature from Harvard University in 2000. In 2006, she edited an issue of Modern Austrian Literature devoted to Elfriede Jelinek. Her book, The Literary and Cultural Rhetoric of Victimhood: Western Europe 1970-2005 (New York: Palgrave, 2007), analyzes the pervasive rhetoric of victimhood in European culture since 1968. Her monograph on Michael Haneke, Der Literaturkünstler, will appear with Synema in 2010.
