Gloria Fisk

Gloria Fisk serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Queens College, City University of New York, where her office is located in Klapper Hall 632. Her academic work bridges contemporary literature with theoretical frameworks examining global literary circulation and narrative structures.

Professor Fisk's research centers on contemporary literature in a global context with particular emphasis on the novel as a form. Her work explores critical debates surrounding world literature in the U.S., novel theory, postcolonial studies, translation theory, and critical writing. She examines how literary value is constructed across cultural boundaries and investigates narrative techniques like prolepsis that have become increasingly prevalent in contemporary world literature. Her interdisciplinary approach connects literary analysis with political theory and cultural studies.

Her publications demonstrate a consistent focus on how narrative forms engage with questions of political community, global literary markets, and the representation of structural violence. Through her analysis of authors like Orhan Pamuk and examination of narrative techniques like prolepsis, she traces how contemporary literature represents the tensions between national frameworks and global literary circulation. Her work reveals how contemporary novels use narrative form to negotiate the limits of political communities in an increasingly interconnected world.

Professor Fisk has made significant contributions through her monograph Orhan Pamuk and the Good of World Literature (2018) and numerous scholarly articles that examine the intersections of literary form, political theory, and global cultural production. Her current book project, We Know How This Will End: Prolepsis, Tragedy, and the Representation of Structural Violence on a Global Scale, continues this line of inquiry by analyzing how contemporary novels begin with scenes of violence to narrate in retrospect the paths that converge to create them.