Bella Brodzki is Professor of Literature at Sarah Lawrence College. She works in critical and cultural theory, gender studies, postcolonial studies, translation studies, autobiography, and modern and contemporary fiction. Selected scholarly publications include essays in PMLA, MLN, Yale French Studies, and in collections such as Borderwork: Feminist Engagements with Comparative Literature; Women, Autobiography, and Fiction: A Reader; Critical Cosmos: Latin American Approaches to Fiction; and Feminism and Institutions: A Dialogue on Feminist Theory. She is author of Can These Bones Live?: Translation, Survival, and Cultural Memory.