English Department
Kaitlin Staudt

Kaitlin Staudt

Job Title
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Karp Hall 114

Areas of expertise

Global Modernist Literature, World Literature

Teaching interests

Global modernist literature, the Turkish novel, Women and Gender studies, World Literature, and Postcolonial literary theory.

Publications

Monograph

In process: State-sponsored Modernity and the Modernist Novel in Turkey: 1908-1948

Journal Articles:

““Move Forward and Ascend!”: Temporality and the Politics of Form in Turkish Modernist Literature.” Modernism/modernity

“The End of Great Periods: Late Ottoman Decadent Poetry and the End of the Ottoman Empire,” Volupté. Vol 6: Issue 1. 2023

“World Literature Bigger Than Five: Contemporary Turkish Fiction and State-sponsored Literary Politics” Journal of World Literature 2022: Volume 7: Issue 3. pp. 369–384.

“(In)visible Beauty Queens: Literary Modernism and the Politics of Women’s Visibility in Turkey.” Feminist Modernist Studies, 2019: Volume 2, Issue 3. pp. 287-303.

“Original resemblance: the function of similarity in Tanpınar’s “Yaz Gecesi.” Middle Eastern Literatures 2017: Volume 20, Issue 2. pp 215-231.

“Daughters of Educated Men in the World: Halide Edip Adıvar, Virginia Woolf, and the Aesthetics of Turkish-British International Exchange.” Under review at the Journal of Middle Eastern Women’s Studies.

book chapters:

“Imperialism and Literary Modernism in the Turkish Republic” in The Cambridge History of Middle Eastern Modernism, forthcoming with Cambridge University Press, 2024.

“For/Against the World: The Politics of Literature in the New Turkey” in Turkish Literature as World Literature, edited by Burcu Alkan and Çimen Günay-Erkol. Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.

“Turkish Modernism” in Global Modernists on Modernism anthology, edited by Alys Moody and Stephen Ross. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. (Winner of the 2020 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize for an Edition, Anthology, or Essay Collection)

“Introduction,” Global Modernisms and Asia’s Other Empires Essay cluster. Under review at Modernism/modernity for publication on the Print+ platform.

Editorial Contributions:

Editor, “Global Modernisms and Asia’s Other Empires” Essay cluster. Under review at Modernism/modernity for publication on the Print+ platform.

Editor of Turkish Modernism Section in Global Modernists on Modernism anthology, edited by Alys Moody and Stephen Ross. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Translations:

“Civilizational Change and Inner Man [Medeniyet Değiştirmesi ve İç İnsan]” by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar. In Global Modernists on Modernism anthology, edited by Alys Moody and Stephen Ross. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

“Some Thoughts about Poetry [Şiir Hakkında Bazı Mülahazalar]” by Ahmet Haşim. In Global Modernists on Modernism anthology, edited by Alys Moody and Stephen Ross. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Additional media

Academic credentials

BA English and French, Wellesley College; MS Literature and Modernity: 1900 to the Present, Faculty of English, University of Edinburgh, UK; MPhil, Modern Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford, UK; PhD, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford, UK