She is currently the Elias W. Leavenworth Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Film and Media Studies at Yale University.
Her works include How We Learn where We Live: Thomas Bernhard, Architecture, and Bildung and The Literary and Cultural Rhetoric of Victimhood: Western Europe, 1970-2005.
from Dartmouth College in 1993 before receiving her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2000.
She joined the faculty of the German department at Yale University in 2019 and became Leavenworth Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Film and Media Studies two years later.
[1] Naqvi has been on the board of the ICI Berlin and Botstiber Institute for Austro-American Studies,[2] on the editorial board of The Germanic Review, German Quarterly, and Wiener Digitale Revue and on the review committees of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the German Research Foundation.