Fatima Naqvi

Fatima Naqvi is Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. She received her B.A. from Dartmouth College in 1993 and her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2000. From 2000-2019, she taught at Rutgers University. She is on the board of the ICI Berlin. Dr. Naqvi’s research interests include the intersection of architecture and literature; the theorization of interdisciplinarity; ecological films; Austrian authors and filmmakers of the 20th and 21st centuries; affect studies. She has published The Literary and Cultural Rhetoric of Victimhood: Western Europe 1970-2005 (New York: Palgrave, 2007), Trügerische Vertrautheit: Filme von Michael Haneke/Deceptive Familiarity: Films by Michael Haneke (Vienna: Synema Verlag, 2010), and How We Learn Where We Live: Thomas Bernhard, Architecture, and Bildung (Northwestern University Press, 2016). Her book on Michael Haneke’s film The White Ribbon (2009) will appear in 2020, as will her co-edited volume (with Roy Grundmann and Colin Root) of Haneke interviews.