Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé is Associate Professor the Departments of English and Comparative Literature at Tulane University, where she is also faculty affiliate in the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, the Cinema Studies Program, and the Program for Gender Studies. She specializes in comparative, interdisciplinary work in Irish and British Transatlantic, European, and Latin American literature and thought of the 20th-21st centuries with a focus on comparative modernisms, their continued resonance in global fiction and film, and the relationship between philosophy and literature. She is the author of A Different Order of Difficulty: Literature after Wittgenstein (UChicago Press, 2020) and co-editor of Wittgenstein and Modernism (UChicago Press, 2017), and The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Philosophy (CUP, 2026).