Naqvi, Fatima

Fatima Naqvi is Assistant Professor at Rutgers University, where she teaches courses on 20th century German literature and film. She has written on film adaptation as melancholic translation, history and cosmology in recent German culture, the poetics of violence in the films of Michael Haneke, as well as aesthetic education in Thomas Bernhard’ s novels. She has also published on Bernhard’ s controversial drama "Heldenplatz," El Greco’ s influence on Rilke’ s poetry, laughter as a means of social action in Roberto Benigni’ s "La vita è bella," and Catholicism...