Emily Apter

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
73 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Emily Apter is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Literature and Literary Theory and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Emily Apter has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 14 papers in Literature and Literary Theory and 10 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Emily Apter's work include Translation Studies and Practices (7 papers), Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (6 papers) and Political theory and Gramsci (5 papers). Emily Apter is often cited by papers focused on Translation Studies and Practices (7 papers), Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (6 papers) and Political theory and Gramsci (5 papers). Emily Apter collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Emily Apter's co-authors include William Pietz, Abigail Solomon‐Godeau, Étienne Balibar, Stephen Melville, Svetlana Alpers, Thomas E. Crow, Elaine Freedgood, Martin Jay, Tom Conley and Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Public Culture and Critical Inquiry.

In The Last Decade

Emily Apter

52 papers receiving 713 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Against world literature : on the politics of untranslatability

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Author						Papers	Cites
Emily Apter	408	369	283	179	140	73	1.2k
Derek Attridge	618 1.5×	827 2.2×	165 0.6×	130 0.7×	101 0.7×	94	1.7k
David Damrosch	586 1.4×	882 2.4×	490 1.7×	268 1.5×	124 0.9×	68	1.9k
Dennis Tedlock	200 0.5×	220 0.6×	196 0.7×	265 1.5×	62 0.4×	42	1.1k
Robert Stam	637 1.6×	320 0.9×	65 0.2×	189 1.1×	115 0.8×	73	1.4k
Erich Auerbach	435 1.1×	548 1.5×	113 0.4×	210 1.2×	232 1.7×	42	1.7k
Theodore Ziolkowski	356 0.9×	424 1.1×	59 0.2×	73 0.4×	100 0.7×	217	1.2k
T. S. Eliot	389 1.0×	1.0k 2.8×	100 0.4×	83 0.5×	192 1.4×	86	1.8k
Astrid Erll	681 1.7×	201 0.5×	55 0.2×	228 1.3×	224 1.6×	47	1.6k
Jane Marie Todd	366 0.9×	245 0.7×	38 0.1×	132 0.7×	173 1.2×	39	1.1k
André Lefèvere	452 1.1×	533 1.4×	1.8k 6.5×	258 1.4×	80 0.6×	48	2.6k

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Apter, Emily. (2021). What Is Just Translation?. Public Culture. 33(1). 89–111. 1 indexed citations

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Apter, Emily. (2019). Alphabetic Memes: Caricature, Satire, and Political Literacy in the Age of Trump. October. 170. 5–24. 2 indexed citations

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Apter, Emily. (2017). Mark Sanders’ Learning Zulu. Safundi. 18(1). 1–4. 2 indexed citations

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Apter, Emily. (2013). Translation at the checkpoint. Journal of Postcolonial Writing. 50(1). 56–74. 5 indexed citations

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Apter, Emily. (2013). Against world literature : on the politics of untranslatability. 209 indexed citations breakdown →

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Apter, Emily. (2012). Le mot ‘monde’ est un intraduisible. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(1). 98–112. 2 indexed citations

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Apter, Emily. (2011). The Translation Zone. Princeton University Press eBooks. 25 indexed citations

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Apter, Emily. (2010). What's the difference? : the question of theory.

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Apter, Emily. (2008). Technics of the Subject: The Avatar-Drive. Postmodern Culture. 18(2). 6 indexed citations

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Apter, Emily. (2008). What is Yours, Ours, and Mine: Authorial Ownership and the Creative Commons. October. 126. 91–114. 3 indexed citations

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Apter, Emily. (2007). Biography of a translationMadame Bovarybetween Eleanor Marx and Paul de Man. Translation Studies. 1(1). 73–89. 3 indexed citations

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Apter, Emily. (2007). Taskography: Translation as Genre of Literary Labor. PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. 122(5). 1403–1415. 5 indexed citations

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Apter, Emily. (2006). The Translation Zone. Princeton University Press eBooks. 270 indexed citations

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Rainer, Yvonne, Linda Nochlin, Griselda Pollock, et al.. (2006). Women Artists at the Millenium. MIT Press eBooks. 7 indexed citations

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Apter, Emily. (2006). On Oneworldedness: Or Paranoia as a World System. American Literary History. 18(2). 365–389. 22 indexed citations

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Apter, Emily. (2005). Translation after 9/11. 2(1). 5 indexed citations

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Apter, Emily. (2005). Theorizing Francophonie. Comparative Literature Studies. 42(4). 297–311.

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Apter, Emily. (2005). Forum: The Legacy of Jacques Derrida. PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. 120(2). 464–494. 5 indexed citations

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Apter, Emily. (2001). Crossover Texts/Creole Tongues: A Conversation with Maryse Conde. Public Culture. 13(1). 89–96. 11 indexed citations

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Apter, Emily. (1997). Out of Character: Camus's French Algerian Subjects. MLN. 112(4). 499–516. 12 indexed citations

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