Arielle Stambler

Arielle Stambler is a Ph.D. candidate in English at UCLA. Her research examines postcolonial literature, cultural memory, and human rights.

Arielle’s current research project, entitled The Social Rights Imaginary of the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel, examines how twenty-first-century Global South fiction remakes international human rights discourse to contest contemporary economic imperialism. By representing material provision as a matter of rights, these texts challenge the logic of neoliberal austerity and reveal literature’s capacity to imagine economic justice.

Arielle co-founded UCLA’s Working Group in Memory Studies in 2018. Prior to pursuing her graduate degree, she received a B.A. in English from Yale University and taught English literature and composition at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Parallax, ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, and PubLab at the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Learn more about her research, teaching, and service here and here.