Emily Sun

Emily Sun is the Tow Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. She also serves as Director of the Program in Comparative Literature and Translation Studies. Her research bridges British/European Romanticism, 19th-century literature, and Sino-Western literary relations, with a focus on politics/aesthetics intersections and psychoanalytic approaches. She teaches core courses like 'Introduction to Comparative Literature' and electives exploring narrative theory, mourning poetics, and translation.

Education: B.A. in English/German from Amherst College (1993), Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale (2003).

Recent publications include On the Horizon of World Literature (2021) and Succeeding King Lear (2010). She co-edited Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and World Literature and contributes to journals like Studies in Romanticism. Current projects explore listening's aesthetics in comparative literature.

Professional service includes roles on MLA's Romanticism forum, Keats-Shelley Association, and editorial boards. She actively mentors students in thesis projects and interdisciplinary scholarship.