Mehtap OzdemirInterim Director of Undergraduate StudiesAssistant Professor, Comparative Literature

Mehtap Ozdemir is assistant professor of comparative literature at Emory University. Prior to joining Emory, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bologna, conducting archival research and digitization in the European Research Council-funded project, Modernizing Empires: Enlightenment, Nationalist Vanguards and Non-Western Literary Modernities, from 2021 to 2023.

 

Bridging Middle Eastern and European literatures, Mehtap Ozdemir’s teaching and research engage several fields in a translingual compass: global modernities, critical translation theory, comparative poetics, world literature, secularization, empire studies, and literary ethics. Her current book project revisits the link between subjectivity and community in world literature through the terrain of Ottoman cosmopolitics. She has published and forthcoming articles in Philological Encounters, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (CSSAAME), Comparative Literature Studies (CLS), Middle Eastern Literatures (MEL), Decolonial Reconstellations: Towards an Ethical Global Studies (Routledge 2025) , and The Cambridge History of Middle Eastern Modernism (Cambridge UP 2026).