(1954), profesor komparatystyki Uniwersytetu Nowojorskiego, autorka książek Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability (2013), The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature (2006), Continental Drift: From National Characters to Virtual Subjects (1999) oraz Feminizing the Fetish: Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the-Century France (1991). Pracuje nad angielskim przekładem prac Alaina Badiou.