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Anna Kornbluh is a Professor of English at the University of Illinois Chicago, affiliated with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on literary form, film, and cultural aesthetics through formalist, Marxist, and psychoanalytic frameworks. She holds leadership roles in academic labor advocacy as part of the UIC United Faculty bargaining team and contributes to scholarly communities via editorial boards for journals like Novel and Mediations. Kornbluh founded InterCcECT, an experimental critical theory collective, and collaborates with Humanitiesworks.org to address humanities labor issues.
Her major works include Immediacy, Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism (2024) and The Order of Forms (2019), exploring intersections between literary form and socioeconomic structures. Research areas span 19th-century British literature, comparative literature, critical theory, media studies, and psychoanalytic theory. Her essays appear in venues ranging from academic journals like Diacritics to public platforms such as The Los Angeles Review of Books.
Kornbluh's scholarship bridges theoretical rigor with contemporary issues, addressing topics like climate aesthetics, financial economies in Victorian fiction, and the political dimensions of narrative form. Her interdisciplinary approach integrates Marxist analysis with psychoanalytic frameworks to interrogate cultural production across literary and cinematic media.
