Bruce Robbins

Bruce Robbins is Old Dominion Foundation Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. He was educated at Harvard University and previously taught at the universities of Geneva and Lausanne and Rutgers University. His most recent book is Atrocity: A Literary History (Standford University Press, 2025). A collection of essays entitled Cosmopolitanisms, coedited with Paulo Horta (NYU Press), came out in 2017. His other books include Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction (Stanford University Press, 2022), The Beneficiary (Duke University Press, 2017), Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence (2012), Upward Mobility and the Common Good (2007), Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress (1999), Secular Vocations: Intellectuals, Professionalism, Culture (1993), and The Servant’s Hand: English Fiction from Below (1986). He is the director of a 2012 documentary entitled “Some of My Best Friends Are Zionists,” available at bestfriendsfilm .com, and another short film about the Israeli historian Shlomo Sand, “What Kind of Jew Is Shlomo Sand?,” which came out in 2020 and is available at mondoweiss.com.