Emily Susan Apter is an American academic, translator, editor and professor. Her areas of research are translation theory, language philosophy, political theory, critical theory, continental philosophy, history and theory of comparative literature, psychoanalysis, and political fiction. She is currently Silver Professor of French and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department of French Literature, Thought and Culture at New York University.

The Decadent Reader
1998
ISBN 9781890951078
Continental Drift
1999
ISBN 9780226023496
The Translation Zone
2011
ISBN 9781400841219
Against World Literature
2013
ISBN 9781844679706
Zones de traduction
2015
ISBN 9782213676708
Unexceptional Politics
2018
ISBN 9781784780852
Feminizing the Fetish
2018
ISBN 9781501722691Critical Secularism
2004
ISBN 9780822365679