Education
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 Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Italian Specialization, CUNY Graduate Center
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Description of Research
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Summary Statement of Research Interests
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My major fields are Italian and Comparative Literature. I have worked broadly in literary theory, cinema, visual theory, and cultural studies. Aside from Italian I also work with French, Latin, German, Spanish, and I am learning Swedish. During the summer of 2007 I had the privilege to teach a course on globalization and culture for USC's program in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janiero. My most recent book, titled Alchemical Mercury: A Theory of Ambivalence, is forthcoming. I am working on a new project that may or may not become a book. It's about the Humanities (and more specifically, literary theory) confronting climate change. Perhaps we humanists are expected to stand on the sidelines while Technics and Policy battle over what is to be done. We are, perhaps, expected to arrive on the scene--always too late--to provide empathy for a dying planet. Yet if we follow the work of Bernard Stiegler, for one, and we learn that Technology is not something outside of the human, but is rather, intrinsic to the human, then we begin to realize that the Humanities are crucial to the most basic thinking about what it might mean to "solve" the problems of greenhouse gas emissions. These are the terms around which my current research is revolving.
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Publications
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Book
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Adinolfi, F.
(2008).
Mondo Exotica: Sounds, Visions, Obsessions of the Cocktail Generation (Francesco Adinolfi), Translator and Editor. (Karen Pinkus, editor and translator, Ed.). Duke University Press.
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Pinkus, K. E.
(2007).
Alchemical Mercury: A Theory of Ambivalence. Alchemical Mercury: A Theory of Ambivalence/University of Chicago Press.
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Book Chapter
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Pinkus, K. E.
(2007).
“Chi l’ha vista? Reflections on the Caso Montesi”. (Vol. NA). New York: Assassinations and Murder in Modern Italy/Palgrave.
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Pinkus, K. E.
(2007).
“$, Anomie, State of Exception”. (Vol. NA). Cambridge, UK: State of Exception/Cambridge University Press.
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Journal Article
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Pinkus, K. E.
(2007).
"The Time of Climate Change is Out of Joint". Technology and Culture.
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Pinkus, K. E.
(2006).
"Hollywood Panorama". Places. A Journal of Environmental Design/University of California Press.
Vol. 4 (December, 2006)
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Pinkus, K. E., Giorgi, G. A.
(2006).
"Zones of Exception: Biopolitical Territories in the Neoliberal Era". Diacritics/Cornell University Press.
Vol. NA
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Pinkus, K. E.
(2006).
“Hermaphrodite Poetics”. Arcadia. International Journal of Comparative Literature/Walter de Gruyter.
Vol. Band 41 (2006), pp. Heft 1.
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Pinkus, K. E.
(2005).
“11/9 & Iraq, musica per le orecchie del presidente”. Il Manifesto/Italian independent newspaper.
Vol. September 11, pp. 2005, p. 6.
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Pinkus, K. E.
(2005).
“Head-Roc”. Il Manifesto/Italian independent newspaper.
Vol. September 20, pp. 2005.
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Pinkus, K. E.
(2005).
“Mrs. Exotica”. Il Manifesto/Italian independent newspaper.
Vol. March 19, pp. 2005, p. 11.
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Pinkus, K. E.
(2005).
“Morte analogica”. Il Manifesto/Italian independent newspaper.
Vol. February 5, pp. 2005, p. 11.
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Pinkus, K. E.
(2007).
“Dematerialize this!". Diacritics/Cornell University Press.
Vol. NA
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Other
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Pinkus, K. E. Picturing Silence: Emblem, Language, Counter-Reformation Materiality, Michigan, 1996
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Pinkus, K. E. The Montesi Scandal, The Death of Wilma Montesi and the Birth of the Paparazzi in Fellini's Rome, Chicago, 2003.
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Pinkus, K. E. Bodily Regimes: Italian Advertising Under Fascism, Minnesota, 1995.
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Honors and Awards
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USC Provost's Future Fuels and Energy Grant, 2006-2007
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Borchard Foundation Faculty Fellowship, 2006
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USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute Fellowship, 2005
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Scaglione Prize best book in Italian Studies (for Bodily Regimes), 1996
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Getty Grant in Art History and the Humanities, 1993-1994
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