Karen Emmerich

Candidate statement

Karen Emmerich is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University, where she specializes in modern Greek literature and translation studies. She is author of Literary Translation and the Making of Originals (2017), and translator of roughly 20 books from Greek into English, including books by Christos Ikonomou, Margarita Karapanou, Amanda Michalopoulou, Sofia Nikolaidou, Kallia Papadaki, Yannis Ritsos, Miltos Sachtouris, Eleni Vakalo, Alki Zei, and others. She is currently finishing a book tentatively titled Forms of Belonging: Citizenship, Migration, and the Modern Greek Literary Sphere, on the connection between literary and legal modes of belonging in the Modern Greek state. She has served on the MGSA board twice before (2003-2005, as graduate student representative, and 2014-2016), and also served as Associate Editor of the Humanities for the Journal of Modern Greek Studies (2012-2019).