Office Location: | 2235 Cranford Road, Durham, NC 27705 |
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Teaching (Fall 2024): (typical courses)
Ph.D. | University of Washington | 2004 |
M.A. | University of Washington | 1998 |
MFA | Univ. of Oregon | 1994 |
B.A. | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | 1988 |
Current projects: Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy: The Politics of the Turkish Novel (Routledge, 2013), Reading Occupied Istanbul: Turkish Subject-Formation from Trauma to Trope (in progress) , A Mind at Peace (translation of Tanpinar novel), Archipelago Books, NY, 2009, 2011, Mediterranean Passages from Dido to Derrida, co-editor, UNC Press, 2008
Primary focus on the legacies of the Ottoman Empire and the Kemalist cultural revolution upon modern Turkey and the Middle East. Secondary focus on cultural translation and representational politics of Turks and Muslims, including regional understandings of Turkey and Islam. Theoretical focus on literature and politics, gender and orientalism, colonialism and nationalism, Islam and modernism, translation and identity.