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Books and Monographs
- E. Göknar, Secular Blasphemies: Orhan Pamuk and the Politics of the Turkish Novel, Middle East and Islamic Studies, edited by Joe Whiting
(August, 2011), Routledge
- Earth and Ashes
(September, 2002), Harcourt (New York) (English translation of Afghan writer Atiq Rahimi's novella on the Soviet-Afghan war.)
- My Name is Red
(September, 2001), Knopf (New York) (English translation of Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk's historical novel about 16th c. Ottoman miniaturists (Vintage paperback edition Sept. 2002).)
Edited Volumes
- "Türkçe'de Roman: Anlatı Geleneğinden Nobel Ödülu'ne",
in Turkish Translation of Cambridge History of Turkey, Vol IV
(Spring, 2011)
- "Occulted Texts: The Untranslated Novels of Orhan Pamuk",
in Existentialism and Politics in Pamuk's Novels, edited by David Buyze and Mehnaz-Mona Afridi
(2011), Palgrave Macmillan
- "The Novel in Turkish: From Narrative Tradition to Nobel Prize",
in Cambridge History of Turkey: Turkey in the Modern World, edited by Reşat Kasaba, vol. IV
(Fall, 2008),
pp. 35, Cambridge University Press [catalogue.asp] [abs]
- with miriam cooke, Erdağ Göknar, Grant Parker, Mediterranean Passages from Dido to Derrida
(2008),
pp. 425, UNC Press [abs]
Papers Published
- "The Literary Modernity of Orhan Pamuk" (in Polish translation),
Znak
(Winter, 2011)
- "The White Castle" and the Ottoman Legacy, edited by Talat Halman,
Journal of Turkish Literature
(January, 2011)
- "From Steppe to Sea: The Blue Anatolia Literary Movement", edited by Mehmet Kalpakli,
Turkish Studies Journal Special Issue Festschrift for Walter Andrews
(Winter, 2010), Harvard University
- "The Turkish Novel: Modernity, Modernism, and Postmodernism",
in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Novel
(Fall, 2010)
- "Orhan Pamuk and the 'Ottoman' Theme",
World Literature Today, vol. 80 no. 6
(November, 2006)
- "My Name is Re(a)d: Translating Authority, Authoring Translation", edited by Sidney Wade,
Translation Review
(Spring, 2005)
- Ottoman Past and Turkish Future: Ambivalence in Tanpinar's Those Outside the Scene,
South Atlantic Quarterly
(April, 2003), Duke University (special issue, "Relocating the Fault Lines: Turkey Beyond the East-West Divide".)
Papers Accepted
- "The Turkish Novel: Modernity, Modernism, and Postmodernism",
in Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Novel
(Fall, 20010)
- "Secular Blasphemies: The Literature of Orhan Pamuk", edited by Nancy Armstrong,
NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction
(August, 2011), Duke
- "Turkish-Muslim Feminism Confronts National Patriarchy: Halide Edib's Divided Self", edited by Bonnie Schulman,
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
(2011), Yale
Book Reviews
- Nergis Erturk, Grammatology and Turkish Literary Modernity
(August, 2009)
- Ataol Behramoğlu, I've Learned Some Things...
(2007), Univ. of Texas Press
- "Reading the Unreadable Ottoman: Victoria Holbrook's The Unreadable Shores of Love",
Journal of Turkish Literature
(Fall, 2004), Bilkent University, Ankara
Other
- Seda Pekçelen, "Interview with Erdag Göknar on Translation",
Time Out Istanbul Magazine
(Winter, 2011)
- Peer-Review: A.H. Tanpinar on Science, Literature, History and Cultural Change,
Journal of Levantine Studies
(March, 2011)
- Peer-Review: "Orhan Pamuk's _Snow_ as a Russian Novel",
Slavic & East European Journal
(2010)
- Peer-Review: "Queering Tanpinar's A Mind a Peace"
(July, 2008)
- Arzu Tascioglu, "Interview with Erdag Goknar",
Turkish Book Review, vol. 2
(Summer, 2008)
- "A Vote Against 'Clash of Civilizations'",
The Durham Herald Sun
(October 16, 2006) [abs]
Translations
- A.H. Tanpinar and E. Göknar (translator), Revised paperback and Kindle reissue of A Mind at Peace, edited by Jill Schoolman
(March, 2011),
pp. 500, Archipelago Books
- Orhan Pamuk and E. Göknar (translator), Revised reissue of My Name is Red, edited by LuAnn Walther
(Fall, 2010),
pp. 500, Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics [abs]
- Atiq Rahimi and E. Göknar (translator), Reissue of Earth and Ashes
(2010), Other Press
- Orhan Pamuk and E. Göknar (translator), "Monsieur Flaubert, C'est Moi!",
Standpoint and Threepenny Review
(August, 2009)
- A.H. Tanpinar and E. Göknar (translator), A Mind at Peace (novel), edited by Jill Schoolman
(January, 2009),
pp. 500, Archipelago Books
Broadcasts
- PBS, PBS World Literature: My Name is Red
(November, 2009)
- What's the Word?: Eco, Ghosh, Pamuk
(2007) (Broadcast on NPR.) [Listen to Broadcast]