Short Story as World Literature: The Deep History and Modern Lives of an Impure Genre (Literatures as World Literature) - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Delia Ungureanu is Executive Director of the Institute for World Literature at Harvard University, USA, and Associate Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the University of Bucharest, Romania. Her publications include From Paris to Tlön: Surrealism as World Literature (Bloomsbury, 2017) and Time Regained: World Literature and Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2021).

Amândio Reis is Assistant Professor of Portuguese Studies in the Department of Romance Literatures at the University of Lisbon, School of Arts and Humanities, Portugal, and editor-in-chief of Compendium: Journal of Comparative Studies. He completed his PhD in 2020 at the University of Lisbon with a dissertation on late-nineteenth century short fiction from a transatlantic perspective. He is the author of Short Stories, Knowledge and the Supernatural: Machado de Assis, Henry James, Guy de Maupassant (2022). His research focuses mostly on the international history of the short story, with a special emphasis on Portugal and Brazil.

Thomas O. Beebee is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and German, Penn State University, USA. He is the author of Millennial Literatures of the Americas, 1492-2002 (2008), Epistolary Fiction in Europe (1999), The Ideology of Genre: A Comparative Study of Generic Instability (1994) and Clarissa on the Continent: Translation and Seduction (1990).