Assistant Professor Georgiana Banita
Postdoctoral Fellow
georgiana.banita@sydney.edu.au
Georgiana Banita is Assistant Professor of Literature and Media Studies at the University of Bamberg, Germany. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Konstanz.
Her first book, Narrative, Ethics, and post-9/11 Literary Culture, under contract with University of Nebraska Press, proposes an ethical approach to post-9/11 literature, linking narrative ethics with literary portrayals of racial profiling, psychoanalysis, and globalization. She is also co-editing an essay collection on visual studies and human rights discourse—Visualizing Human Rights: Narrative and Rhetoric of the Humanitarian Image.
During 2006-2007, Banita was a doctoral fellow at Yale University, and is the recipient of several academic prizes and research grants, including a visiting fellowship at the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University (2011).
Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Textual Practice, LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Parallax, and Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, in addition to chapters for several edited volumes.
At the United States Studies Centre, she is working on a new book project that analyzes the evolution of American petro-fiction. The project examines how American literature since 1860 has responded to the challenges of increasingly international economic markets. The book will argue that the global interconnectedness of petroleum cultures has significantly inflected the transnational shape of U.S. literary forms.
