Anca Parvulescu

Anca Parvulescu is the Liselotte Dieckmann Professor in Comparative Literature and professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Laughter: Notes on a Passion (2010); The Traffic in Women’s Work: East European Migration and the Making of Europe (2014); with Manuela Boatcă, Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires (2022). Her current book project is Face and Form: Physiognomy in Literary Modernism (forthcoming in 2025 from Cambridge UP). Parvulescu is the PI for an EU-funded project on the history of comparatism.