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Fatima Naqvi is a literary and film scholar whose research focuses on modern Austrian film, ecological films, affect studies and the interconnections of film, literature and architecture. She is currently the Elias W. Leavenworth Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Film and Media Studies at Yale University. Her works include How We Learn where We Live: Thomas Bernhard, Architecture, and Bildung and The Literary and Cultural Rhetoric of Victimhood: Western Europe, 1970-2005.
Fatima Naqvi completed her B.A. from Dartmouth College in 1993 before receiving her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2000. Naqvi was a professor at Rutgers University from 2000 to 2019. She joined the faculty of the German department at Yale University in 2019 and became Leavenworth Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Film and Media Studies two years later.[1]
Naqvi has been on the board of the ICI Berlin and Botstiber Institute for Austro-American Studies,[2] on the editorial board of The Germanic Review, German Quarterly, and Wiener Digitale Revue and on the review committees of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the German Research Foundation.[3] She has also been an editor of Volltext: Zeitschrift für Literatur, Investigations and Recherche-Zeitung für Wissenschaft.[4]
Naqvi has been a guest professor at Harvard University (2017)[5] and was a Fulbright Professor at the Center for Intermediality Studies at Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz (2013).[6]
