Emily Sun is an Associate Professor in Comparative Literature and Translation Studies. She came to Barnard in 2015 from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, where she was Associate Professor in Foreign Languages and Literature and where she founded and directed the Center for Comparative Literature. After growing up in California, Singapore, and Taiwan, Professor Sun received her B.A. in English and German from Amherst College and her Ph.D. in comparative literature from Yale University. Her research interests include British and continental European Romantic and nineteenth-century literature, cross-cultural literary relations between China and the West, literary theory, politics and aesthetics, and psychoanalysis and literature. At Barnard, she regularly teaches courses required for the major in Comparative Literature and Translation Studies, including “Introduction to Comparative Literature,” “Topics in Comparative Literature,” and the “Senior Seminar in Comparative Literature”; as well as electives such as “Stories and Storytelling: An Introduction to Narrative,” the “Advanced Workshop in Translation,” and “Languages of Loss: The Poetry of Mourning.” She has advised senior theses on a range of topics and looks forward to mentoring future students in developing original and creative work in comparative literature and translation studies.
Professor Sun is the author of On the Horizon of World Literature: Forms of Modernity in Romantic England and Republican China (Fordham UP, 2021) and Succeeding King Lear: Literature, Exposure, and the Possibility of Politics (Fordham UP, 2010). She is co-editor, with Eyal Peretz and Ulrich Baer, of The Claims of Literature: A Shoshana Felman Reader (Fordham UP, 2007) and, with Emily Rohrbach, of “Reading Keats, Thinking Politics,” a special issue of Studies in Romanticism (2011). She has published articles, translations, and reviews in Studies in Romanticism, the European Romantic Review, the Yearbook of Comparative Literature, and the Journal of the History of Ideas in East Asia, among other journals.
