Nergis Ertürk
Assistant
Professor of Comparative Literature
Office: Library Tower 1509A
Phone: 777-7177
Email: erturk@binghamton.edu
Research
interests
Transnational
modernism; theories of modernity; postcolonial
studies; deconstruction; 19th-20th century Ottoman/Turkish
literature and culture.
Work
in progress
Missed
Encounters: Modernity and the Crisis of Language.
Education
Ph.D.,
English and Comparative Literature (concentration:
Comparative Literature and Society), Columbia
University, 2006.
M.Phil.,
English and Comparative Literature (concentration:
Comparative Literature and Society), Columbia
University, 2003.
M.A., English and Comparative Literature, Columbia
University, 2000.
B.A.
with Honors (Magna cum laude), Literature, Harvard
University, 1999.
Awards
Center
for Comparative Literature and Society Postdoctoral
Fellowship, Columbia
University, Spring 2007.
Publications
"Modernity
and Its Fallen Languages: Tanpinar's Hasret,
Benjamin's Melancholy," PMLA, forthcoming,
2008.
Review
of Dina Iordanova, Emir Kusturica (BFI World
Directors Series). Balkanistica 17 (South
East European Studies Association, University
of Mississippi, 2004): 177-178.
Languages
Turkish
(native fluency); Ottoman Turkish; German (reading
and basic speaking); French (reading); Italian
(reading); Serbo-Croatian (reading)
