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Mehtap OzdemirAssistant Professor, Comparative Literature
Research Interests
- Middle Eastern Cultural and Literary Modernities
- Comparative Poetics and World Literature
- Critical Translation Theory
- Literary Ethics, Sufi Aesthetics, and the Novel
- Decolonization and Intellectual History
Publications
“Ethical Antinomies: The Problem of Realism in Ottoman Literary Modernity.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 44.2 (2024): 234-248; “Translation after the Persianate? Omar Khayyam and Late Perso-Ottoman Poetic Connections.” Philological Encounters 8.2-3 (Fall 2023): 253-280; “The Late Persianate World: Transregional Connections and the Question of Language,” (introduction), co-authored and co-edited with Maryam Fatima and Alexander Jabbari. Philological Encounters 8.2-3 (Fall 2023): 111–120.
Translations:
Ziya Paşa, 1868, “Poetry and Prose,” Artichoke: Ottoman & Turkish Literature in English Translation (Boston University), available online: https://sites.bu.edu/artichoke/files/2024/08/Ziya-Pasha-Poetry-and-ProseMOzdemir.pdf
