Institute for Critical Theory Duke University

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Sibel Irzik Paper Title: Military Coup Narratives and the (Dis)articulations of the Political in Contemporary Turkish Novel	Sibel Irzik teaches at Sabanci University. She received her BA in English Literature from Bogazici University, and her MA and PhD in Comparative Literature from Indiana University. She is the author of Deconstruction and the Politics of Criticism (NY&London: Garland Publishing, 1990) and the co-editor of Relocating the Fault Lines: Turkey Beyond the East-West Divide, a special double issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly, 2003. She has also edited the selected writings of Mikhail Bakhtin and a collection of articles on gender and literature in Turkish. She has published articles on literary theory, the modern Turkish novel, postcolonial literature, and the theory of the novel in various journals in English and Turkish. Among her more recent publications is an article on Orhan Pamuk's Black Book, published in The Novel, Volume 2: Forms and Themes (ed. Franco Moretti, Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2006) and a forthcoming article on aesthetics and politics in Pamuk's novels. She is currently working on a comparative study of military coup literatures and a study of the political novel in Turkey.


Jale Parla Paper Title: The Writer-Manqué: Orhan Pamuk and His Predecessors	Jale Parla is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Istanbul Bilgi University . She was educated at the American College for Girls, and Robert College , and taught at Bogazici University for several decades. From 1980 on, her research and writing have been mostly concentrated on the Turkish novel. She is the author, in Turkish, of The Novel from Don Quixote to the Present (2000), Fathers and Sons: The Epistemological Origins of the Tanzimat Novel (1990), and Mastery, Slavery, Orientalism (1985). Her articles in English include "From Allegory to Parable: Inscriptions of Anatolia in the Turkish Novel," "The Object of Comparison," and "The Wounded Tongue: Turkey 's Language Reform and the Canonicity of the Novel," which is forthcoming in the January 2008 issue of the PMLA.


Azade Seyhan Paper Title: Re(Orient)ation in Turkish-German Literature and Criticism	Azade Seyhan is Fairbank Professor in the Humanities, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, and adjunct professor of Philosophy at Bryn Mawr College. She is the author of Representation and Its Discontents: The Critical Legacy of German Romanticism (University of California Press, 1992) and Writing Outside the Nation (Princeton University Press, 2001). She has published extensively on German philosophical traditions, Romanticism, and diaspora literatures of the United States and Germany.

Upcoming Visitors
	Sibel Irzik
	Jale Parla
	Azade Seyhan

	TURKEY: LITERARY AND POLITICAL INTERSECTIONS November 3, 2007