Andrea Bachner
Assistant Professor
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Andrea Bachner joined the Comparative Studies faculty at OSU in 2008 after spending a year as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Comparative Literature at Stanford. She received an MA in Comparative Literature from Munich University, Germany, and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University. Her dissertation
Paradoxical Corpographies: Towards an Ethics of Inscription proposes a critique of inscription through readings of contemporary theoretical, literary and visual texts from different cultural and linguistic contexts. It scrutinizes scenes that stage the encounter between textuality and corporeality with a view to elucidating how inscription is deployed to negotiate crucial differences: between materiality and signification, between agency and determinism, between cultural and sexual sameness and alterity. She has published several articles on critical theory, interculturality, literature and cinema in journals such as
Comparative Literature Studies and
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture. Her current book project,
Alterity, Mediality, and the Sinograph: Chinese Writing Under Erasure, investigates how contemporary sinophone writers and artists reshape, decenter, and reflect upon the Chinese writing system and its cultural archive from positions of diaspora, interculturality, as well as regional, ethnic, and cultural difference, and how they engage with, translate, and contest Western theories of writing and mediality.
