Charity Scribner

Charity Scribner teaches and writes about European culture. Her fields of specialization are British, French, German, and Polish literature from the nineteenth century to the present, critical theory, and contemporary art. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at LaGuardia Community College and the Department of Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her publications include two books, After the Red Army Faction: Gender, Culture, and Militancy (Columbia 2014) and Requiem for Communism (MIT 2003), as well as numerous articles for the New Left Review, Critical Inquiry, and Grey Room. A recent Mellon Fellow at the CUNY Center for the Humanities, Scribner has received grants from the Humboldt Foundation, the DAAD, and the Fulbright Foundation. In 2010 she was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to fund “The Gramsci Project,” a public art collaboration with the artists Thomas Hirschhorn and Hong-An Truong in Long Island City.