About

Christy Wampole is an essayist and a professor at Princeton University. Her two most recent books are Degenerative Realism: Novel and Nation in 21st-Century France (Columbia University Press 2020, winner of the Modern Language Association Scaglione Prize) and Rootedness: The Ramifications of a Metaphor (University of Chicago Press 2016, winner of the Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book). She is co-editor of the forthcoming Cambridge History of the American Essay. Her essay collection The Other Serious: Essays for the New American Generation appeared with HarperCollins in 2015. In addition to her scholarly publications, her essays and opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Aeon Magazine, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and Public Books. Her radio interviews have been broadcast on NPR, WNYC, Radio Canada, Deutschlandfunk, SiriusXM, Canadian Broadcasting Company, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and Radio France Culture. Originally from Texas, she lives part-time in New Jersey and part-time in Berlin. See academic profile here and here.