Rei Terada is Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Critical Theory Emphasis at the University of California, Irvine. Her books include Looking Away: Phenomenality and Dissatisfaction, Kant to Adorno (Harvard UP, 2009), Feeling in Theory: Emotion after the “Death of the Subject” (Harvard UP, 2001) and Derek Walcott's Poetry: American Mimicry (Northeastern UP, 1992).