Anahid Nersessian

Anahid Nersessian is a literary critic and Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her first book, Utopia, Limited: Romanticism and Adjustment , was published by Harvard University Press in 2015, and her second, The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life , by the University of Chicago Press in 2020. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books , and her writing has also appeared in The Paris Review , New Left Review , The Los Angeles Review of Books...See more

Anahid Nersessian is a literary critic and Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her first book, Utopia, Limited: Romanticism and Adjustment , was published by Harvard University Press in 2015, and her second, The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life , by the University of Chicago Press in 2020. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books , and her writing has also appeared in The Paris Review , New Left Review , The Los Angeles Review of Books , and n+1 . She co-founded and co-edits the Thinking Literature series at the University of Chicago Press. See less